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Enaliarctos tedfordi
Taxonomy
Enaliarctos tedfordi was named by Berta (1991). Its type specimen is USNM 206273, a partial skull (cranium lacking rostrum and left jaw fragment), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Deer Creek, which is in a Chattian marine sandstone/siltstone in the Yaquina Formation of Oregon.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1991 | Enaliarctos tedfordi Berta p. 16 figs. Fig. 16-17 |
| 2003 | Enaliarctos tedfordi Deméré et al. p. 49 figs. Fig. 3.3 |
| 2008 | Enaliarctos tedfordi Barnes p. 527 |
| 2018 | Enaliarctos tedfordi Berta et al. p. 205 figs. Fig. 1 |
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†Enaliarctos tedfordi Berta 1991
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
|---|---|---|
| A. Berta 1991 | Distinguished from other species of Enaliarctos by having smaller, less well-developed metacone crests on P^"^. Distinguished from E. mitchelli in primitively retaining dorsally arched ventral portion of zygoma and having posterior portion of palate joining palate between die roots of M^ Distinguished from E. mealsi and E. barnesi in having reduced cheek teeth cingula, P* with a short metacone. |