Pteronarctos

<i>Pteronarctos</i>

Pteronarctos

Extinct genus of mammals

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

Quick Facts Scientific classification, Species ...

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

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