| Archaeodobenus Temporal range:
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| Partial holotype cranium shown from above, the left side, and below | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Clade: | Pinnipedia |
| Family: | Odobenidae |
| Genus: | †Archaeodobenus Tanaka & Kohno, 2015 |
| Species: | †A. akamatsui
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| Binomial name | |
| †Archaeodobenus akamatsui Tanaka & Kohno, 2015
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Archaeodobenus is an extinct genus of pinniped that lived during the Late Miocene of what is now Japan. It belonged to the Odobenidae family, which is today only represented by the walrus, but was much more diverse in the past, containing at least 16 genera.[1]