Pliopedia
Sign in to savePliopedia pacifica is an extinct species of walrus found in what is now Central Valley, California, United States, which lived during the late Miocene. It was an amphibious carnivore.
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It sits within the topics Fossil taxa described in 1921, Miocene pinnipeds and Monotypic prehistoric carnivoran genera.
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- Odobenidae
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- Kellogg, 1921
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Pliopedia pacifica is an extinct species of walrus found in what is now Central Valley, California, United States, which lived during the late Miocene. It was an amphibious carnivore.
== Discovery == The holotype specimen (USNM 13627) was collected in 1909 by Robert Anderson, and consists of pieces of both forelimbs.
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