Kamtschatarctos
Extinct genus of carnivores / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Kamtschatarctos | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Carnivora |
Clade: | Pinnipedia |
Family: | Odobenidae |
Genus: | †Kamtschatarctos Dubrovo, 1981 |
Species: | †K. sinelnikovae |
Binomial name | |
†Kamtschatarctos sinelnikovae Dubrovo, 1981 | |
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Kamtschatarctos is an extinct genus of pinniped that lived approximately 15.97 to 11.608 mya during the Early Miocene in the Kavran-Ukhtolok Bay of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula.[1][2][3] It belonged to the family Odobenidae, the only extant species of which is the walrus.[4]