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| Enaliarctos mealsi cast of a specimen from California. At the AMNH. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Clade: | Pinnipedimorpha |
| Family: | †Enaliarctidae Mitchell & Tedford, 1973 |
| Genus: | †Enaliarctos Mitchell & Tedford, 1973 |
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Enaliarctos[2] 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.[1]
- ^ a b Poust A.W. & Boessenecker R.W. (2018). "Expanding the geographic and geochronologic range of early pinnipeds: New specimens of Enaliarctos from Northern California and Oregon". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 63(1): p. 25-40
- ^ From Greek ἐνάλιος, enalios, of the sea; and ἄρκτος, arktos, bear, "referring to the arctoid, including ursid, Carnivora" (Mitchell & Tedford, 1973, p. 218).