species of pinnipeds and 102 species of fossil pinnipeds and their stem-relatives (Pinnipedimorpha), collectively referred to as pinnipedimorphs. Scientists...

of arctoid carnivorans are the closest relatives to the pinnipedimorphs, being more closely related to musteloids. Below is an overall phylogeny of the...

preserved fossil walrus currently known. Although the holotype specimen (OCPC 11141) of Titanotaria had been discovered in 1993 and represents one of the most...

fixed. Conservation status codes listed follow the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species. Range maps are...

Semantoridae is an extinct family of stem-pinnipeds with fossils found in France, Kazakhstan, and Canada, dating back to various points in time in the...

the Oligocene, but without fossil samples obtained from this era, this is based primarily on conjecture. All samples of fossil Desmatophoca were found in...

phylogeny and fossil record integration". Evolution. 78 (7): 1212–1226. doi:10.1093/evolut/qpae061. hdl:10141/623088. Berta, Annelisa. "Encyclopedia of Marine...

lacked the long tusks of walruses, and were more slender and smaller than their modern relatives. Autapomorphies of Proneotherium fossils include a continuous...

extinct genus of phocid belonging to the subfamily Phocinae. It is known from fossils found in the late Miocene of Belgium. There are two species of Frisiphoca...

Puijila, a very basal 'pinnipedimorph'. Ed Yong, Puijila, the walking seal — a beautiful transitional fossil. "Fossil seal had the feet of an otter" by Bob...

is an extinct genus of phocid belonging to the subfamily Monachinae. It is known from fossils found in the middle to late Miocene of Belgium. The type and...

Amphicynodon was an extinct genus of caniform carnivore. It has traditionally been considered an early bear, although recent evidence has suggested it...

Allodesmus is an extinct genus of pinniped from the middle to late Miocene of California and Japan that belongs to the extinct pinniped family Desmatophocidae...

genus of earless seals from the Pliocene of South Africa. The type species of Homiphoca, H. capensis, was originally described as a species of the dubious...

is an extinct genus of pinniped that lived approximately 15.97 to 11.608 mya during the Early Miocene in the Kavran-Ukhtolok Bay of Russia's Kamchatka...

Hadrokirus is an extinct genus of true seal (Phocidae) that lived on the coast of Peru and North Carolina about 6 million years ago. The type species,...

Amphicynodontinae are classified as stem-pinnipeds in the superfamily Phocoidea. Fossils of these mammals have been found in Europe, North America and Asia. Amphicynodontines...

polyphyletic group of marine mammals, a few points of cranial and dental morphology suggested that the otarioids originated from a line of bears. One extinct...

Enaliarctos is an extinct genus of pinnipedimorph, and may represent the ancestor to all pinnipeds. The five species in the genus Enaliarctos have been...

while fossils of P. jutlandica have been found in the Tortonian-age Gram Formation in Denmark. I. Koretsky. 2001. Morphology and systematics of Miocene...

journal}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) Morlo, Michael; Nagel, Doris (2006). "The carnivore guild of the Taatsiin Gol area: Hyaenodontidae (Creodonta)...

by Robert Anderson, and consists of pieces of both forelimbs. Known Pliopedia fossils include a humerus, pieces of radius and ulna from both forelimbs...

mammals fossils were being unearthed in Neogene deposits in the vicinity of Antwerp, Belgium as well as Suffolk, England. One of these fossils was identified...

from crown walrus. Fossils of Osodobenus were discovered in the Californian Capistrano Formation, which also yielded the fossils of the walrus Pontolis...

Drassonax is an extinct genus of small, weasel-like bear. It lived in North America during the Early Oligocene, around 33 Ma. "†Drassonax Galbreath 1953...

Archaeodobenus is an extinct genus of pinniped that lived during the Late Miocene of what is now Japan. It belonged to the Odobenidae family, which is...

extinct monotypic genus of walrus with the sole species Imagotaria downsi. Fossils of Imagotaria are known from the early late Miocene of California (c. 10-12...

discovered in 2024 from the Purisima Formation in Santa Cruz, California. The fossil was discovered by thirteen-year old, amateur paleontologist Forrest Sheperd...

Gomphotaria is a genus of very large shellfish-eating dusignathine walrus found along the coast of what is now California, during the late Miocene. It...

2021. Kohno, N.; Barnes, L.G.; Hirota, K. (December 1994). "Miocene fossil pinnipeds of the genera Prototaria and Neotherium (Carnivora; Otariidae; Imagotariinae)...