Mammalia - Carnivora - Otariidae
Full reference: L. G. Barnes, C. E. Ray, and I. Koretsky. 2006. A new Pliocene sea lion, Proterozetes ulysses (Mammalia: Otariidae) from Oregon, U.S.A. Mesozoic and Cenozoic Vertebrates and Paleoenvironments 57-77
Belongs to Proterozetes according to R. W. Boessenecker and M. Churchill 2015
See also Barnes et al. 2006, Berta et al. 2018 and Poust and Boessenecker 2017
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: USNM 187108, a skull. Its type locality is Cape Blanco, south, which is in a Pleistocene marginal marine sandstone in the Port Orford Formation of Oregon.
Ecology: amphibious piscivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (2: Oregon collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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