Pseudotaria Kohno 2006 (walrus)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Odobenidae

Full reference: N. Kohno. 2006. A new Miocene odobenid (Mammalia: Carnivora) from Hokkaido, Japan, and its implications for odobenid phylogeny. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26(2):411-421

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

See also Berta 2009, Berta 2017, Berta 2018, Berta et al. 2018, Boessenecker and Churchill 2013 and Kohno 2006

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

Subtaxa: Pseudotaria muramotoi

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Type: Pseudotaria muramotoi

Ecology: amphibious carnivore

Distribution: found only at Ichibangawa River (Miocene of Japan)

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