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...

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

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...

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

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

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

moving bottom preys. I. A. Koretsky and S. J. Rahmat. 2013. First record of fossil Cystophorinae (Carnivora, Phocidae): Middle Miocene seals from the northern...

2020). "Insights on the Dental Evolution of Walruses Based on New Fossil Specimens from California". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 40 (5): e1833896...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

straeleni, are nomina dubia. Van Beneden P-J. 1877. Description des ossements fossiles des environs d’Anvers, première partie. Pinnipèdes ou amphithériens. Annales...

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

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

Naoki Kohno, Lawrence G. Barnes & Kiyoharu Hirota (1994). "Miocene fossil pinnipeds of the genera Prototaria and Neotherium (Carnivora; Otariidae; Imagotariinae)...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...