Enaliarctos emlongi

Taxobox
name = "Enaliarctos emlongi"
status = fossil


image_caption = "Enaliarctos emlongi"
fossil_range = Early Miocene
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Carnivora
infraordo = Pinnipeda
familia = Enaliarctidae
genus = "Enaliarctos"
genus_authority = 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.

References

* Berta, A., C.E. Ray and A.R. Wyss. 1989. Skeleton of the oldest known pinniped, Enaliarctos mealsi. Science 244:60-62.
* Berta, A. 1991. New "Enaliarctos"* (Pinnipedimorpha) from the Miocene of Oregon and the role of "Enaliarctids" in Pinniped Phylogeny. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 69.
* Dixon, D., Moody, R., Jenkins, I. and Zhuravlev, A.Y., "Cassell's Atlas of Evolution". Oxford 2001
* Wallace, D.R. 2007. Neptune's Ark: From Ichthyosaurs to Orcas. University of California Press.