Kamtschatarctos
Extinct genus of carnivores
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Kamtschatarctos is an extinct genus of pinniped that lived approximately 15.97 to 11.608 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]
| Kamtschatarctos Temporal range: Early Miocene, | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Parvorder: | Pinnipedia |
| Family: | Odobenidae |
| Genus: | †Kamtschatarctos Dubrovo, 1981 |
| Species: | †K. sinelnikovae |
| Binomial name | |
| †Kamtschatarctos sinelnikovae Dubrovo, 1981 | |
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.
