Name - Valenictus Mitchell 1961

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urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:1033811 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Valenictus Mitchell

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Original Description Reference

• A new walrus from the Imperial Pliocene of southern California: with notes on odobenid and otariid humeri. Contributions in Science Los Angeles, No. 44 1961: 1-28. [Zoological Record Volume 98]

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Recent Publications

• Two new species of fossil walruses (Pinnipedia: Odobenidae) from the Upper Pliocene San Diego Formation, California.
• The family Odobenidae: a phylogenetic analysis of fossil and living taxa.
• A new walrus from the Imperial Pliocene of southern California: with notes on odobenid and otariid humeri.
• A New Early Pliocene Record of the Toothless Walrus Valenictus Carnivora, Odobenidae from the Purisima Formation of Northern California.
• Tusked walruses (Carnivora: Odobenidae) from the Miocene-Pliocene Purisima Formation of Santa Cruz, California (USA): a new species of the toothless walrus Valenictus and the oldest records of Odobeninae and Odobenini.

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