Mammalia - Carnivora - Odobenidae

Full reference: H. Horikawa. 1995. A primitive odobenine walrus of Early Pliocene age from Japan. The Island Arc 3:309-328

Parent taxon: Odobeninae according to J. N. Biewer et al. 2020

See also Berta 2017, Berta 2018, Berta et al. 2018, Boessenecker and Churchill 2013, Deméré et al. 2003, Horikawa 1995, Kohno 2006 and Magallanes et al. 2018

Sister taxa: Aivukus, Odobenini, Pliopedia

Subtaxa: Protodobenus japonicus

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Ecology: amphibious carnivore

Distribution: found only at Iriyama (Pliocene of Japan)

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