Mammalia - Carnivora - Otariidae

Full reference: T. Shikama. 1953. On a fossil remain of sea-lion, Eumetopias (?) kishidai n. sp. from Japan. Scientific Reports of the Yokohama National University Section II(2):10-14

Belongs to Eumetopias according to T. Shikama 1953

See also Mitchell 1968

Sister taxa: Eumetopias (Eumetopias), Eumetopias jubatus, Eumetopias oijyaensis, Eumetopias stelleri

Type specimen: no nunber, a partial skull (tip of a snout). Its type locality is Megakura, which is in a Pleistocene marine sandstone in Japan.

Ecology: amphibious piscivore

Distribution: found only at Megakura

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