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| E. terraenovae skeleton at Florida Museum of Natural History. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Mustelidae |
| Subfamily: | Lutrinae |
| Genus: | †Enhydritherium Berta and Morgan 1985 |
| Species: | †E. terraenovae
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| †Enhydritherium terraenovae Berta and Morgan 1985
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Enhydritherium terraenovae is an extinct marine otter endemic to North America that lived during the Miocene through Pliocene epochs from ~9.1–4.9 Ma. (AEO),[1] existing for approximately 4.2 million years.
The ancestral lineage of Enhydritherium terraenova can be traced to Africa and Eurasia, but no clear route of migration can be determined according to Thompson et al.[2]
- ^ Alroy, John, PaleoDB collection 19461: authorized by J. Alroy, entered by J. Alroy on August 5, 1996. paleodb.org
- ^ Feldhamer, George A., Thompson, Bruce C., Chapman. Joseph A. Wild mammals of North America: biology, management, and conservation, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-8018-7416-5