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Taxonomy
Enaliarctos emlongi was named by Berta (1991). Its type specimen is USNM 250345, a partial skull (a nearly complete cranium and jaws. Probably from the same individual, there is a left femur and right patella, tibia, and fibula), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Big Creek, south, which is in a Burdigalian deltaic mudstone in the Nye Formation of Oregon.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1991 | Enaliarctos emlongi Berta p. 5 figs. Fig. 3-10 |
| 2003 | Enaliarctos emlongi Deméré et al. p. 49 figs. Fig. 3.3 |
| 2008 | Enaliarctos emlongi Barnes p. 527 |
| 2014 | Enaliarctos emlongi Cullen et al. p. 1471 figs. Figure 1 |
| 2018 | Enaliarctos emlongi Berta et al. p. 205 figs. Fig. 1 |
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†Enaliarctos emlongi Berta 1991
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
|---|---|---|
| A. Berta 1991 | Distinguished from other species of En- aliarctos by having P^ with broadly developed posterolingual shelf, P2-^ with large crest-like metacone, F^_4 metaconid
small, Mj metaconid very reduced and close to protoconid. Distinguished from all other species except E. mitchelli in having posterior portion of zygoma that joins palate anterior to M^. Distinguished from E. barnesi and E. mealsi in having reduced cheek teeth cingula, P* with a short metacone. |