Mammalia - Carnivora

Full reference: L. G. Barnes. 1992. A new genus and species of middle Miocene enaliarctine pinniped (Mammalia, Carnivora, Otariidae) from the Astoria Formation in Coastal Oregon. Contributions in Science 431:1-27

Parent taxon: Pinnipedimorpha according to A. Berta 2018

See also Barnes 1992, Barnes 2008, Berta 1994, Berta 2017, Deméré et al. 2003 and McKenna and Bell 1997

Sister taxa: Enaliarctidae, Enaliarctos, Kolponomos, Phocomorpha, Pinnarctidion, Pinnipedia, Pinnipediformes, Pteronarctos, Semantor

Subtaxa: Pacificotaria hadromma

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Ecology: amphibious carnivore

Distribution: found only at Iron Mountain Bed (Miocene of Oregon)

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