| Pteronarctos Temporal range: Middle Miocene,
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Clade: | Pinnipediformes |
| Genus: | †Pteronarctos Barnes, 1989 |
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Pteronarctos is a genus of basal pinnipediform from middle Miocene marine deposits in Oregon.
Two species of Pteronarctos are known, P. goedertae and P. piersoni. Although originally described as a member of Enaliarctidae, cladistic analyses place Pteronarctos as sister to pinnipeds, in the clade Pinnipediformes.[1][2][3][4][5]
- ^ L. G. Barnes. 1989. A new enaliarctine pinniped from the Astoria Formation, Oregon, and a classification of the Otariidae (Mammalia: Carnivora). Contributions in Science 403:1-26
- ^ L. G. Barnes. 1990. A new Miocene enaliarctine pinniped of the genus Pteronarctos (Mammalia: Otariidae) from the Astoria Formation, Oregon. Contributions in Science 422:1-20
- ^ Churchill, Clementz & Kohno (2015) Churchill M, Clementz MT, Kohno N. Cope’s rule and the evolution of body size in Pinnipedimorpha (Mammalia: Carnivora) Evolution. 2015;69(1):201–215. doi: 10.1111/evo.12560.
- ^ R. W. Boessenecker and M. Churchill. 2015. The oldest known fur seal. Biology Letters
- ^ J. Velez-Juarbe. 2017. Eotaria citrica, sp. nov., a new stem otariid from the “Topanga” formation of Southern California. PeerJ 5:e3022