Enaliarctos emlongi Temporal range: Early Miocene |
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Enaliarctos emlongi | |
Conservation status | |
Fossil
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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.