IRMNG taxon details
original description
Contrib Sci (Los Ang) No. 431 page(s): 3 [details]
basis of record
Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. Previously at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (URL no longer current). , available online at https://insecta.bio.spbu.ru/z/nomenclator_zoologicus_PDF.htm [details]
verified source for family
Berta, A. (2018). Pinniped Evolution. pp. 712-722 in Bernd Würsig, J.G.M. Thewissen and Kit M. Kovacs (eds): Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals (Third Edition). Academic Press. , available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-804327-1.00196-5 note: a stem pinniped, refer note [details]
name verified source
Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. Previously at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (URL no longer current). , available online at https://insecta.bio.spbu.ru/z/nomenclator_zoologicus_PDF.htm [details]
current name source
Berta, A. (2018). Pinniped Evolution. pp. 712-722 in Bernd Würsig, J.G.M. Thewissen and Kit M. Kovacs (eds): Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals (Third Edition). Academic Press. , available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-804327-1.00196-5 [details]
extant flag source
original work (title/other) [details]
habitat flag source
as per family [details]
Unreviewed
Habitat Marine and nonmarine [details]
Taxonomic remark Listed as a synonym of Pteronarctos by McKenna & Bell, 1997, however treated as an accepted genus by Berta, 2018. From that work: A later diverging lineage more closely allied with pinnipeds than with Enaliarctos is Pteronarctos from the late Miocene (19–15Ma) of coastal Oregon. Pteronarctos is recognized as the earliest pinniped to have evolved the unique maxilla diagnostic of modern pinnipeds. ... Closely related to Pteronarctos from the same stratigraphic unit is Pacificotaria. [details]
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