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Pacificotaria

Mammalia - Carnivora

Taxonomy
Pacificotaria was named by Barnes (1992).

It was synonymized subjectively with Pteronarctos by Berta (1994) and McKenna and Bell (1997).

It was assigned to Enaliarctinae by Barnes (1992) and Barnes (2008); and to Pinnipedimorpha by Deméré et al. (2003), Berta (2017) and Berta (2018).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1992Pacificotaria Barnes p. 3
2003Pacificotaria Deméré et al. p. 49 figs. Fig. 3.3
2008Pacificotaria Barnes p. 528
2017Pacificotaria Berta p. 155
2018Pacificotaria Berta p. 712

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
Mammaliamorpha
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
RankNameAuthor
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
Ferae()
CarnivoramorphaWyss and Flynn 1993
CarnivoraformesFlynn et al.
orderCarnivora
suborderCaniformiaKretzoi 1943
infraorderCanoidea(Simpson 1931)
superfamilyArctoideaFlower 1869
PanpinnipediaWolsan et al. 2020
Pinnipedimorpha
genusPacificotaria

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.

G. †Pacificotaria Barnes 1992
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available