Oriensarctos

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Oriensarctos
Temporal range: Pleistocene
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Suborder: Caniformia
Parvorder: Pinnipedia
Family: Otariidae
Genus:† Oriensarctos
Mitchell, 1968
Species:
†O. watasei
Binomial name
†Oriensarctos watasei
(Matsumoto, 1925)
Synonyms [1]

Species synonymy

  • Eumetopias watasei Matsumoto, 1925

Oriensarctos is an extinct genus of pinniped that inhabited Japan during the Pleistocene epoch. It is a monotypic genus known from the species Oriensarctos watasei. [2]

References

  1. ↑ Oriensarctos watasei in the Paleobiology Database
  2. ↑ Mitchell, Edward (1 September 1968). "The Mio-Pliocene Pinniped Imagotaria" . Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada. 25 (9): 1843–1900. doi:10.1139/f68-169. ISSN   0015-296X . Retrieved 13 November 2024– via Canadian Science Publishing.


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