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 M. Boisville et al. 2024
See also Boessenecker et al. 2018, Boessenecker et al. 2024, Deméré 1994, Kohno and Ray 2008, Kohno et al. 1995, Magallanes et al. 2018 and McKenna and Bell 1997
Sister taxa: Aivukus, Pliopedia, Protodobenus
Subtaxa: Odobenina Odobenus Ontocetus Valenictus
Ecology: amphibious carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Belgium (3 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 (15), North Atlantic (3), North Pacific (1), the Russian Federation (12), the United Kingdom (7), United States (50: Alaska, California, Florida, Georgia, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Virginia)
• Blancan of United States (2: California, Florida)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of the Netherlands (4), United States (1: Georgia)
• Pliocene of Belgium (5), Japan (6), Morocco (2), the Netherlands (2), the United Kingdom (1), United States (33: California, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia)
• Hemphillian of United States (4: Florida)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Netherlands (1), United States (1: California)
• Miocene to Pleistocene of the Netherlands (1)
• Miocene of Belgium (1), the Netherlands (2)
• Neogene of United States (3: Florida, Georgia)
Total: 270 collections including 282 occurrences