| Kamtschatarctos | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Odobenidae |
| Genus: | †Kamtschatarctos Dubrovo, 1981 |
| Species: | †K. sinelnikovae |
| Binomial name | |
| †Kamtschatarctos sinelnikovae Dubrovo, 1981 | |
Kamtschatarctos is an extinctgenus ofpinniped that lived approximately 15.97 to 11.608mya during theEarly Miocene in the Kavran-Ukhtolok Bay of Russia'sKamchatka Peninsula.[1][2][3] It belonged to the familyOdobenidae, the only extant species of which is thewalrus.[4]
Kamtschatarctos sinelnikovae is known from a partially complete skeleton, discovered in the Etolon Formation in Russia.
Kamtschatarctos is a relatively basal species of odobenid.
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