Enaliarctos

Enaliarctos
Temporal range: Late Oligocene - Early Miocene,
Enaliarctos mealsi cast of a specimen from California. At the AMNH.
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 is an extinct genus of pinnipedimorph, and may represent the ancestor to all pinnipeds. The five species in the genus Enaliarctos have been recovered from late Oligocene and early Miocene (ca. 28-17 million years ago) strata of California and Oregon.

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