Imagotaria Mitchell 1968 (walrus)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Odobenidae

Full reference: E. D. Mitchell. 1968. The Mio-Pliocene pinniped Imagotaria. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada 25(9):1843-1900

Parent taxon: Odobenidae according to I. Magallanes et al. 2018

See also Barnes 1971, Barnes 1988, Barnes 1989, Barnes 2008, Berta 2002, Berta 2009, Berta 2017, Berta 2018, Berta et al. 2018, Biewer et al. 2020, Boessenecker 2011, Boessenecker and Churchill 2013, Carroll 1988, Deméré 1994, Deméré et al. 2003, Kohno 2006, Kohno et al. 1995, McKenna and Bell 1997, Mitchell 1968, Repenning and Tedford 1977, Rice 1998 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Archaeodobenus, Kamtschatarctos, Nanodobenus, Neodobenia, Neotherium, Odobeninae, Osodobenus, Pelagiarctos, Pontolis, Proneotherium, Prototaria, Pseudotaria, Titanotaria

Subtaxa: Imagotaria downsi

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Type: Imagotaria downsi

Ecology: amphibious carnivore

Distribution:

• Miocene to Pliocene of United States (1: California collection)

• Miocene of Japan (1), United States (24: California)

Total: 26 collections each including a single occurrence

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