Pinnipedimorphs | |
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Artist reconstruction ofEnaliarctos emlongi | |
Scientific classification![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Carnivora |
Clade: | Pan-Pinnipedia |
Clade: | Pinnipedimorpha Berta et al., 1989 |
Subtaxa | |
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Pinnipedimorpha is aclade ofarctoidcarnivorans that is defined to include the last common ancestor ofPhoca andEnaliarctos, and all descendants of that ancestor.[1] Scientists still debate on which lineage of arctoid carnivorans are the closest relatives to the pinnipedimorphs, being more closely related tomusteloids.[2][3][4][5][6]
Below is an overall phylogeny of the taxa covered in the article followed after a composite tree in Berta et al. (2018)[1] and a total-evidence (combined molecular-morphological) dataset in Paterson et al. (2020):[7]
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