Oriensarctos
Extinct genus of mammals
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Oriensarctos is an extinct genus of pinniped that inhabited Japan during the Pleistocene epoch. It is a monotypic genus known from the species Oriensarctos watasei.[2]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Parvorder: | Pinnipedia |
| Family: | Otariidae |
| Genus: | †Oriensarctos Mitchell, 1968 |
| Species: | †O. watasei |
| Binomial name | |
| †Oriensarctos watasei (Matsumoto, 1925) | |
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