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ACTA PALAEONTOLOGICA POLONICA
卷 63, 期 1, 页码 25-40出版社
INST PALEOBIOLOGII PAN
DOI: 10.4202/app.00399.2017
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Mammalia; Arctoidea; Pinnipedia; Enaliarctos; Miocene; Pacific
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- Vertebrate Paleontology Collection Study Grant from the University of Washington Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture
The early pinnipedimorph Enaliarctos was a marine-adapted carnivore with dental and locomotor features intermediate between terrestrial arctoids and living pinnipeds. New specimens of Enaliarctos are described from Oligocene and Miocene deposits on the Pacific coast of North America, and include the oldest enaliarctine mandible (Yaquina Formation, 30.6-27.4 Ma), the first enaliarctine from Northern California (Skooner Gulch Formation, 23.8-22 Ma), and the stratigraphically youngest fossil of the genus (Astoria Formation, 17.3-16.6 Ma). The wide biogeographic and temporal range of Enaliarctos provided the potential for interaction or competition with plotopterid birds, odontocete whales, and crown pinnipeds such as early odobenids, early otariids, and desmatophocids. The expansion of the known ranges of Enaliarctos species and the description of additional morphology, particularly of the mandible and lower dentition, provides insight into the origins of pinniped diversity and their possible interactions with other early Neogene coastal marine organisms.
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