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Pinnipedimorpha

Stem-clade of arctoid carnivorans From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Pinnipedimorpha
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Pinnipedimorpha is a clade of arctoid carnivorans that is defined to include the last common ancestor of Phoca and Enaliarctos, and all descendants of that ancestor.[1] Scientists still debate on which lineage of arctoid carnivorans are the closest relatives to the pinnipedimorphs, being more closely related to musteloids.[2][3][4][5][6]

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Below is an overall phylogeny of the taxa covered in the article followed after a composite tree in Berta et al. (2018)[1] and a total-evidence (combined molecular-morphological) dataset in Paterson et al. (2020):[7]

Amphicynodontidae

Semantoridae

Pinnipedimorpha

Enaliarctidae

Pinnipediformes
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