Nanodobenus
Extinct genus of pinniped / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Nanodobenus | |
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The left mandibular fossil of N. arandai, including articulated teeth | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Carnivora |
Clade: | Pinnipedia |
Family: | Odobenidae |
Genus: | †Nanodobenus Velez & Salinas-Marquez, 2018 |
Species: | †N. arandai |
Binomial name | |
†Nanodobenus arandai Velez & Salinas-Marquez, 2018 | |
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Nanodobenus is an extinct genus of pinniped that lived approximately 15.97 to 7.246 mya[1] during the Miocene in what is now Baja California Sur, Mexico. It belonged to the family Odobenidae, the only extant species of which is the walrus.