Kolponomos
Kolponomos Temporal range:
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Skull | |
Mandible | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Carnivora |
Family: | †Amphicynodontidae |
Genus: | †Kolponomos Stirton, 1960 |
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Kolponomos is an extinct
Description
In life, species of Kolponomos had downturned snouts and broad, heavy molars that would have been suited to a diet of hard-shelled marine invertebrates, and their narrow snouts and anteriorly directed eyes indicate that they would have had stereoscopic vision.[2] Large neck muscle attachments and robust foot bones combine with these features to suggest that Kolponomos filled a unique niche among marine carnivores, approached today only by the very distantly related sea otter. Due to the lack of a complete skeleton, however, it is difficult to make inferences about this genus' other adaptations.
Based on the skull and jaws known, Kolponomos
Aspects of its feeding morphology were similar to the giant otter Siamogale melilutra, although Kolponomos is not an otter[4]
Discovery
Kolponomos clallamensis is known from the
Kolponomos newportensis was described in 1994 by
References
- ^ PMID 26936242.
- ^ a b c Tedford, R. H.; Barnes, L. G.; Ray, C. E. (1994). "The early Miocene littoral ursoid carnivoran Kolponomos: Systematics and mode of life" (PDF). Proceedings of the San Diego Society of Natural History. 29: 11–32. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 September 2012. Retrieved 24 July 2010.
- ^ "Prehistoric Animal Bit Like a Sabercat, Crunched Like a Bear". Science. 2016-03-03. Archived from the original on May 12, 2019. Retrieved 2019-12-07.
- PMID 29123190.
- ^ "Kolponomos clallamensis". Fossilsworks. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
- ^ "Slip Point Lighthouse (Miocene of the United States)". Fossilworks. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
- OCLC 692426.
- ISBN 9780521355193. Retrieved 30 December 2013.
- JSTOR 2412515.
- S2CID 4371413.
- S2CID 135439365.