Clade Pinnipediformes Berta 1994 (pinniped)
Full reference: A. Berta. 1994. New specimens of the pinnipediform Pteronarctos from the Miocene of Oregon. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 78:1-30
Parent taxon: Pinnipedimorpha according to A. Berta 2009
See also Berta 1994 and Deméré et al. 2003
Sister taxa: Enaliarctidae, Enaliarctos, Kolponomos, Pacificotaria, Phocomorpha, Pinnarctidion, Pinnipedia, Pteronarctos, Semantor
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: amphibious carnivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Pinnipediformes in the database