Mammalia - Carnivora - Odobenidae
Full reference: E. D. Mitchell. 1968. The Mio-Pliocene pinniped Imagotaria. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada 25(9):1843-1900
Belongs to Imagotaria according to J. N. Biewer et al. 2020
See also Barnes 2008, Berta 2018, Berta et al. 2018, Boessenecker 2011, Boessenecker and Churchill 2013, Boessenecker and Churchill 2015, Deméré 1994, Deméré et al. 2003, Magallanes et al. 2018 and Mitchell 1968
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: SBMNH 342, a partial skull. Its type locality is Great Lakes Carbon Co. quarry, which is in a Tortonian marine diatomite in the Monterey Formation of California.
Ecology: amphibious carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Japan (1 collection), United States (19: California)
Total: 20 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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