Pinnipedimorpha

Pinnipedimorpha is a clade of arctoid carnivorans that is defined to include the last common ancestor of Phoca and Enaliarctos, 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 to musteloids.^{[2][3][4][5][6]}

Phylum:Chordata

Class:Mammalia

Order:Carnivora

Clade:Pan-Pinnipedia

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Pinnipedimorphs Temporal range: Oligocene–Holocene, 24–0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Artist reconstruction of Enaliarctos emlongi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Clade:	Pan-Pinnipedia
Clade:	Pinnipedimorpha Berta et al., 1989
Subtaxa
†Enaliarctidae Mitchell & Tedford, 1973 Pinnipediformes Berta, 1994 †Pinnarctidion Barnes, 1979 †Pacificotaria Barnes, 1992 †Pteronarctos Barnes, 1989 Pinnipedia Illiger, 1811

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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]