Mammalia - Carnivora - Desmatophocidae
Full reference: R. W. Boessenecker and M. Churchill. 2018. The last of the desmatophocid seals: a new species of Allodesmus from the upper Miocene of Washington, USA, and a revision of the taxonomy of Desmatophocidae. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 184(1):211-235
Belongs to Allodesmus according to W. Tonomori et al. 2018
See also Boessenecker and Churchill 2018
Sister taxa: Allodesmus kernensis, Allodesmus naorai, Allodesmus packardi, Allodesmus sinanoensis, Allodesmus uraiporensis
Type specimen: UWBM 75640, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Grays Harbor, which is in a Tortonian marine horizon in the Montesano Formation of Washington.
Ecology: amphibious carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of United States (2: Washington collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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