Enaliarctos emlongi

Enaliarctos emlongi
Temporal range: Early Miocene
Enaliarctos emlongi
Conservation status
Fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Infraorder: Pinnipeda
Family: Enaliarctidae
Genus: Enaliarctos
Mitchell & Thedford, 1973
Species: E. emlongi

Enaliarctos emlongi is an extinct species of pinniped represented by fossils from coastal Oregon. It existed between 13 and 20 million years ago, during the Hemingfordian age of the Oligocene epoch. It was named for renowned fossil collector Douglas Emlong in 1991 by paleontologist Annalisa Berta.

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