Mammalia - Carnivora - Odobenidae
Full reference: J. A. Allen. 1880. History of North American Pinnipeds. US Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, Miscellaneous Publications 12:1-785
Parent taxon: Odobeninae according to I. Magallanes et al. 2018
See also Boessenecker et al. 2018, Boessenecker et al. 2024, Deméré 1994, Kohno and Ray 2008, Kohno et al. 1995 and McKenna and Bell 1997
Sister taxa: Aivukus, Ontocetus, Pliopedia, Protodobenus
Subtaxa: Odobenina Odobenus Valenictus
Ecology: amphibious carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Belgium (2 collections), Canada (70: British Columbia, Labrador, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Yukon), France (1), Germany (3), Greenland (18), Iceland (9), Japan (9), the Netherlands (12), North Atlantic (3), North Pacific (1), the Russian Federation (12), the United Kingdom (1), United States (42: Alaska, California, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia)
• Blancan of United States (1: California)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of the Netherlands (4)
• Pliocene of Japan (5), United States (6: California)
• Miocene to Pleistocene of the Netherlands (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of United States (1: California)
• Miocene of Germany (1)
Total: 202 collections including 209 occurrences