Nanodobenus
Sign in to saveNanodobenus is an extinct genus of pinniped that lived approximately 15.97 to 7.246 mya during the Miocene in what is now Baja California Sur, Mexico. It belonged to the family Odobenidae, the only extant species of which is the walrus. thumb|A map of the area where Nanodobenus fossils were discovered
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Within Vinony's link graph, Nanodobenus is referenced by 84 other articles, and connects out to Odobenidae, Phocinae and mandible.
It sits within the topics Monotypic prehistoric carnivoran genera, Odobenidae and Prehistoric pinnipeds of North America.
Its subject is documented across 4 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Parent taxon
- Odobenidae
- Image
- Nanodobenus arandai mandible.png
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- taxon name
- Nanodobenus
- taxon rank
- genus
- Commons category
- Nanodobenus
- start time
- 15970000-0
- end time
- 7246000-00
- taxon author citation
- Velez & Salinas-Marquez, 2018
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Discovery
- Description
- Taxonomy
Nanodobenus is an extinct genus of pinniped that lived approximately 15.97 to 7.246 mya during the Miocene in what is now Baja California Sur, Mexico. It belonged to the family Odobenidae, the only extant species of which is the walrus. thumb|A map of the area where Nanodobenus fossils were discovered
== Discovery == N. arandai is known from a partially complete left mandible and a right calcaneum bone, discovered in the Torgugas Formation in Mexico.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nanodobenus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.