Kamtschatarctos
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Clade: | Pinnipedia |
| Family: | Odobenidae |
| Genus: | †Kamtschatarctos Dubrovo, 1981 |
| Species: | †K. sinelnikovae
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| Binomial name | |
| †Kamtschatarctos sinelnikovae Dubrovo, 1981
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Kamtschatarctos is an extinct
mya during the Early Miocene in the Kavran-Ukhtolok Bay of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula.[1][2][3] It belonged to the family Odobenidae, the only extant species of which is the walrus.[4]
Discovery
Kamtschatarctos sinelnikovae is known from a partially complete skeleton, discovered in the Etolon Formation in Russia.
Taxonomy
Kamtschatarctos is a relatively basal species of odobenid.
References
- PMID 23342129.
- . Retrieved 2019-12-04.
- ^ "Fossilworks: Kamtschatarctos sinelnikovae". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
- ^ "†Kamtschatarctos Dubrovo 1981 (walrus)". paleobiodb.org. Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 2019-12-04.
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