Pteronarctos

Pteronarctos; Temporal range: Middle Miocene, 16–11.6 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Clade:	Pinnipediformes
Genus:	†Pteronarctos; Barnes, 1989
Species
	P. goedertae Barnes, 1989 (type); P. piersoni Barnes, 1990;

Pteronarctos is a genus of basal pinnipediform from middle Miocene marine deposits in Oregon.

Two species of Pteronarctos are known, P. goedertae and P. piersoni. Although originally described as a member of Enaliarctidae, cladistic analyses place Pteronarctos as sister to pinnipeds, in the clade Pinnipediformes.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

References[edit]

^ L. G. Barnes. 1989. A new enaliarctine pinniped from the Astoria Formation, Oregon, and a classification of the Otariidae (Mammalia: Carnivora). Contributions in Science 403:1-26
^ L. G. Barnes. 1990. A new Miocene enaliarctine pinniped of the genus Pteronarctos (Mammalia: Otariidae) from the Astoria Formation, Oregon. Contributions in Science 422:1-20
^ Churchill, Clementz & Kohno (2015) Churchill M, Clementz MT, Kohno N. Cope’s rule and the evolution of body size in Pinnipedimorpha (Mammalia: Carnivora) Evolution. 2015;69(1):201–215. doi: 10.1111/evo.12560.
^ R. W. Boessenecker and M. Churchill. 2015. The oldest known fur seal. Biology Letters
^ J. Velez-Juarbe. 2017. Eotaria citrica, sp. nov., a new stem otariid from the “Topanga” formation of Southern California. PeerJ 5:e3022

External links[edit]

Enaliarctos at The Paleobiology Database

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[1] L. G. Barnes. 1989. A new enaliarctine pinniped from the Astoria Formation, Oregon, and a classification of the Otariidae (Mammalia: Carnivora). Contributions in Science 403:1-26

[2] L. G. Barnes. 1990. A new Miocene enaliarctine pinniped of the genus Pteronarctos (Mammalia: Otariidae) from the Astoria Formation, Oregon. Contributions in Science 422:1-20

[3] Churchill, Clementz & Kohno (2015) Churchill M, Clementz MT, Kohno N. Cope’s rule and the evolution of body size in Pinnipedimorpha (Mammalia: Carnivora) Evolution. 2015;69(1):201–215. doi: 10.1111/evo.12560.

[4] R. W. Boessenecker and M. Churchill. 2015. The oldest known fur seal. Biology Letters

[5] J. Velez-Juarbe. 2017. Eotaria citrica, sp. nov., a new stem otariid from the “Topanga” formation of Southern California. PeerJ 5:e3022

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