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Enaliarctos
Temporal range: Late Oligocene - Early Miocene, 24–22 Ma
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E. mealsi fossil
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Order:
Carnivora
Clade:
Pinnipedimorpha
Family:
†Enaliarctidae Mitchell & Tedford, 1973
Genus:
†Enaliarctos Mitchell & Tedford, 1973
Species
E. mealsi (type)
E. barnesi
E. emlongi
E. mitchelli
E. tedfordi
Enaliarctos[1] is an extinct genus of pinnipedimorph, and may represent the ancestor to all pinnipeds. Prior to the discovery of Puijila, the five species in the genus Enaliarctos represented the oldest known pinnipedimorph fossils, having been recovered from late Oligocene and early Miocene (ca. 24–22 million years ago) strata of California and Oregon.
^From Greek ἐνάλιος, enalios, of the sea; and ἄρκτος, arktos, bear, "referring to the arctoid, including ursid, Carnivora" (Mitchell & Tedford, 1973, p. 218).
pinnipeds) suggests that Enaliarctos needed to return to shore with prey items in order to masticate and ingest them. Still, Enaliarctos had some sea lion-like...
Archaeodobenus, Titanotaria, Nanodobenus, and Pliopedia; and included Enaliarctos, Pteronarctos, Allodesmus, Desmatophoca, Callorhinus, Monachus, and Erignathus):...
carnivorans that is defined to include the last common ancestor of Phoca and Enaliarctos, and all descendants of that ancestor. Scientists still debate on which...
modern relatives. Enaliarctos was likely more of a fore-flipper swimmer, but could probably swim with either pair. One species, Enaliarctos emlongi, exhibited...
marine mammals which is closely related to an extinct group of pinnipeds, Enaliarctos. While support for the monophyly of pinnipeds is strong, the relationship...
monophyletic origin for all pinnipeds from a single ancestor, possibly Enaliarctos, most closely related to the mustelids and bears. Monk seals and elephant...
appears to morphologically precede the more familiarly structured genus Enaliarctos, despite apparently being a younger genus. In other words, Puijila is...
partially split by a small groove. The brain is nearly identical to that of Enaliarctos, an extinct mammal universally agreed to be close to pinnipeds. Modern...
units in Oregon Paleontology in Oregon Berta, Annalisa (1991). "New Enaliarctos* (Pinnipedimorpha) from the Oligocene and Miocene of Oregon and the Role...
Genus Potamotherium Superfamily Pinnipedia Family Enaliarctidae Genus Enaliarctos Family Otariidae (eared seals) Family Odobenidae (walruses) Genus Imagotaria...
the genus Diplodactylus E. mitchelli Enaliarctos mitchelli, an extinct pinniped species in the genus Enaliarctos M. mitchelli Modisimus mitchelli, Gertsch...
and among her contributions is the description of the early pinniped Enaliarctos. Berta received her Ph.D. from the Department of Paleontology at the...
substantially to the field from the age of fourteen. The ancestral pinniped Enaliarctos emlongi was named in his honor by Annalisa Berta in 1991. Fossils discovered...
†Enaliarctos †Enaliarctos barnesi – type locality for species †Enaliarctos emlongi – type locality for species †Enaliarctos mitchelli †Enaliarctos tedfordi...
food and shelter exerted by the diversification of early seals, like Enaliarctos or Pinnarctidion, into the North Pacific may have been detrimental for...
2307/2412515. ISSN 0039-7989. JSTOR 2412515. Berta, Annalisa (1991). "New Enaliarctos* (Pinnipedimorpha) from the Oligocene and Miocene of Oregon and the Role...
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