species of pinnipeds and 102 species of fossil pinnipeds and their stem-relatives (Pinnipedimorpha), collectively referred to as pinnipedimorphs. Scientists...
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of arctoid carnivorans are the closest relatives to the pinnipedimorphs, being more closely related to musteloids. Below is an overall phylogeny of the...
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fixed. Conservation status codes listed follow the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species. Range maps are...
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Kamtschatarctos (category Pinnipeds of Europe)
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...
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Amphicynodontinae are classified as stem-pinnipeds in the superfamily Phocoidea. Fossils of these mammals have been found in Europe, North America and Asia. Amphicynodontines...
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phylogeny and fossil record integration". Evolution. 78 (7): 1212–1226. doi:10.1093/evolut/qpae061. Berta, Annelisa. "Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals...
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Titanotaria (category Fossil taxa described in 2018)
preserved fossil walrus currently known. Although the holotype specimen (OCPC 11141) of Titanotaria had been discovered in 1993 and represents one of the most...
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Pliopedia (category Fossil taxa described in 1921)
by Robert Anderson, and consists of pieces of both forelimbs. Known Pliopedia fossils include a humerus, pieces of radius and ulna from both forelimbs...
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Pachyphoca (category Fossil taxa described in 2013)
moving bottom preys. I. A. Koretsky and S. J. Rahmat. 2013. First record of fossil Cystophorinae (Carnivora, Phocidae): Middle Miocene seals from the northern...
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Pontolis (category Fossil taxa described in 1905)
2020). "Insights on the Dental Evolution of Walruses Based on New Fossil Specimens from California". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 40 (5): e1833896...
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Proneotherium (category Miocene mammals of North America)
lacked the long tusks of walruses, and were more slender and smaller than their modern relatives. Autapomorphies of Proneotherium fossils include a continuous...
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Enaliarctos (category Fossil taxa described in 1973)
Enaliarctos is an extinct genus of pinnipedimorph, and may represent the ancestor to all pinnipeds. The five species in the genus Enaliarctos have been...
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Valenictus (category Fossil taxa described in 1961)
discovered in 2024 from the Purisima Formation in Santa Cruz, California. The fossil was discovered by thirteen-year old, amateur paleontologist Forrest Sheperd...
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Semantoridae (category Transitional fossils)
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...
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Ontocetus (category Fossil taxa described in 1859)
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...
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Phocanella (category Fossil taxa described in 1876)
straeleni, are nomina dubia. Van Beneden P-J. 1877. Description des ossements fossiles des environs d’Anvers, première partie. Pinnipèdes ou amphithériens. Annales...
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Aivukus (category Fossils of Mexico)
Aivukus is an extinct genus of walrus from the Miocene. The generic name is derived from the Inuit word for walrus, aivuk. From fossil records it was at least...
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Desmatophoca (category Fossil taxa described in 1906)
the Oligocene, but without fossil samples obtained from this era, this is based primarily on conjecture. All samples of fossil Desmatophoca were found in...
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Frisiphoca (category Fossil taxa described in 2018)
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...
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Kolponomos (category Fossil taxa described in 1960)
discovery of more fossils including a nearly complete cranium from the original locality of K. clallamensis which helped identify it as part of the group...
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Monotherium (category Fossil taxa described in 1874)
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...
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Imagotaria (category Fossil taxa described in 1968)
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...
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Pontophoca (category Fossil taxa described in 1941)
while fossils of P. jutlandica have been found in the Tortonian-age Gram Formation in Denmark. I. Koretsky. 2001. Morphology and systematics of Miocene...
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Acrophoca (category Fossils of Chile)
of monk seal. The fossils of A. longirostris have been discovered in the Pisco Formation of Peru and the Bahía Inglesa Formation of Chile. When it was...
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Puijila (category Fossil taxa described in 2009)
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...
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Pteronarctos (category Fossil taxa described in 1988)
Pteronarctos is a genus of basal pinnipediform from middle Miocene marine deposits in Oregon. Two species of Pteronarctos are known, P. goedertae and P...
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Drassonax (category Fossil taxa described in 1953)
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...
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Pelagiarctos (category Fossil taxa described in 1988)
(Allodesmus, Neotherium). Because of its large size, adaptations geared toward crunching bones, and rarity in the fossil record, Pelagiarctos is formerly...
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Gryphoca (category Fossil taxa described in 1876)
is known from Pliocene marine deposits in the Antwerp region of Belgium, while fossils of P. nordica have been found in the Tortonian-age Gram Formation...
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Allodesmus (category Fossils of Japan)
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...
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