Kamtschatarctos Dubrovo 1981 (walrus)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Odobenidae

Full reference: I. A. Dubrovo. 1981. A new subfamily of fossil seals (Pinnipedia, Kamtschatarctinae subfam. nov.). Doklady Earth Science Sections 256:202-206

Parent taxon: Odobenidae according to I. Magallanes et al. 2018

See also Berta 2017, Berta 2018, Berta et al. 2018, Boessenecker and Churchill 2013, Carroll 1988, Dubrovo 1981, Dubrovo 1984, Horikawa 1995, Kohno et al. 1995, McKenna and Bell 1997 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Archaeodobenus, Imagotaria, Nanodobenus, Neodobenia, Neotherium, Odobeninae, Osodobenus, Pelagiarctos, Pontolis, Proneotherium, Prototaria, Pseudotaria, Titanotaria

Subtaxa: Kamtschatarctos sinelnikovae

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Type: Kamtschatarctos sinelnikovae

Ecology: amphibious carnivore

Distribution: found only at Kavran-Ukhtolok Bay (Miocene to Miocene of Russian Federation)

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