Enhydritherium Berta and Morgan 1985 (otter)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae

Full reference: A. Berta and G. S. Morgan. 1985. A new sea otter (Carnivora: Mustelidae) from the late Miocene and early Pliocene (Hemphillian) of North America. Journal of Paleontology 59(4):809-819

Parent taxon: Lutrinae according to Z. J. Tseng et al. 2017

See also Baskin 1998, Berta and Morgan 1985, Carroll 1988, Pickford 2007 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Aonychini, Aonyx, Aonyxini, Enhydra, Enhydrini, Enhydriodon, Enhydriodontini, Hydrictis, Lontra, Lutra, Lutraeximia, Lutrictis, Lutrini, Lutrogale, Megencephalon, Paludolutra, Paralutra, Pteronura, Siamogale, Sivaonyx, Teruelictis, Tyrrhenolutra, Vishnuonyx

Subtaxa: Enhydritherium terraenovae

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Ecology: scansorial carnivore-omnivore

Distribution:

• Blancan of United States (1: California collection)

• Hemphillian of Mexico (1), United States (7: Florida)

• Miocene of United States (4: California, Florida)

Total: 13 collections including 14 occurrences

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