Mammalia - Carnivora - Odobenidae
Full reference: I. Magallanes, J. F. Parham, G.-P. Santos and J. Velez-Juarbe. 2018. A new tuskless walrus from the Miocene of Orange County, California, with comments on the diversity and taxonomy of odobenids. PeerJ 6:e5708
Parent taxon: Odobenidae according to I. Magallanes et al. 2018
Sister taxa: Archaeodobenus, Imagotaria, Kamtschatarctos, Nanodobenus, Neotherium, Odobeninae, Osodobenus, Pelagiarctos, Pontolis, Proneotherium, Prototaria, Pseudotaria, Titanotaria
Subtaxa: Dusignathinae
Ecology: amphibious carnivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of United States (3: California collections)
• Miocene to Pliocene of United States (1: California)
• Miocene of Mexico (1), United States (8: California)
Total: 13 collections including 16 occurrences