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Dusignathinae
Taxonomy
Dusignathinae was named by Mitchell (1968). It is not extant.
It was reranked as the subtribe Dusignathina by McKenna and Bell (1997).
It was assigned to Otariidae by Mitchell (1968), Barnes (1989) and Vidal (1991); to Odobenini by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Odobaenidae by Repenning and Tedford (1977), Deméré (1994), Rice (1998), Deméré et al. (2003) and Kohno (2006); to Odobenidae by Horikawa (1995), Berta (2002), Koretsky and Barnes (2006), Barnes (2008), Berta (2009), Fulton and Strobeck (2010), Boessenecker and Churchill (2013), Berta (2017) and Berta et al. (2018); and to Neodobenia by Biewer et al. (2020).
It was reranked as the subtribe Dusignathina by McKenna and Bell (1997).
It was assigned to Otariidae by Mitchell (1968), Barnes (1989) and Vidal (1991); to Odobenini by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Odobaenidae by Repenning and Tedford (1977), Deméré (1994), Rice (1998), Deméré et al. (2003) and Kohno (2006); to Odobenidae by Horikawa (1995), Berta (2002), Koretsky and Barnes (2006), Barnes (2008), Berta (2009), Fulton and Strobeck (2010), Boessenecker and Churchill (2013), Berta (2017) and Berta et al. (2018); and to Neodobenia by Biewer et al. (2020).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1968 | Dusignathinae Mitchell p. 1894 |
| 1977 | Dusignathinae Repenning and Tedford p. 9 |
| 1989 | Dusignathinae Barnes p. 3 |
| 1991 | Dusignathinae Vidal p. 6 |
| 1994 | Dusignathinae Deméré p. 91 |
| 1995 | Dusignathinae Horikawa p. 322 figs. Table 4 |
| 1997 | Dusignathina McKenna and Bell p. 256 |
| 1998 | Dusignathinae Rice |
| 2002 | Dusignathinae Berta p. 923 |
| 2003 | Dusignathinae Deméré et al. p. 49 figs. Fig. 3.3 |
| 2006 | Dusignathinae Kohno p. 418 |
| 2006 | Dusignathinae Koretsky and Barnes p. 145 |
| 2008 | Dusignathinae Barnes p. 533 |
| 2009 | Dusignathinae Berta p. 863 |
| 2010 | Dusignathinae Fulton and Strobeck p. 817 figs. Figure 1 |
| 2013 | Dusignathinae Boessenecker and Churchill p. 10 fig. 8 |
| 2017 | Dusignathinae Berta p. 156 |
| 2018 | Dusignathinae Berta et al. p. 217 figs. Fig. 6 |
| 2020 | Dusignathinae Biewer et al. figs. Figure 2 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Subfm. †Dusignathinae Mitchell 1968
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G. †Dusignathus Kellogg 1927
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†Dusignathus santacruzensis Kellogg 1927
†Dusignathus seftoni Deméré 1994
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| J. N. Biewer et al. 2020 | The largest clade including Dusignathus santacruzensis Kellogg, 1927 but not Odobenus (orig. Phoca) rosmarus (Linnaeus, 1758). |
Measurements
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| References: Carreño and Cronin 1993, Hendy et al. 2009, Kohno et al. 1995 | |||||
Age range: base of the Tortonian to the top of the Piacenzian or 11.62000 to 2.58800 Ma
Collections (12 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Tortonian | USA (California) | Dusignathus sp. (52216) | |
| Tortonian - Piacenzian | USA (California) | Dusignathinae indet., Dusignathus santacruzensis, Gomphotaria pugnax (188305) | |
| Messinian | Mexico (Baja California) | Dusignathinae indet., Dusignathus santacruzensis (45458) | |
| Messinian | USA (California) | Dusignathus santacruzensis (52217 75783 152096) Dusignathus santacruzensis, Odobenidae indet. (152092) Gomphotaria pugnax (59067) Odobenidae indet. (58990) | |
| Zanclean | USA (California) | Dusignathus seftoni (184960) | |
| Piacenzian | USA (California) | Dusignathus seftoni (118208 184958) |