Enhydritherium
Extinct species of carnivore / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Enhydritherium terraenovae is an extinct marine otter endemic to North America that lived during the Miocene through Pliocene epochs from ~9.1–4.9 Ma. (AEO),[1] existing for approximately 4.2 million years.
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Enhydritherium | |
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E. terraenovae skeleton at Florida Museum of Natural History. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Carnivora |
Family: | Mustelidae |
Subfamily: | Lutrinae |
Genus: | †Enhydritherium Berta and Morgan 1985 |
Species: | †E. terraenovae |
Binomial name | |
†Enhydritherium terraenovae Berta and Morgan 1985 | |
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The ancestral lineage of Enhydritherium terraenova can be traced to Africa and Eurasia, but no clear route of migration can be determined according to Thompson et al.[2]