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Gomphotaria
Extinct genus of carnivores / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gomphotaria is a genus of very large shellfish-eating dusignathine walrus[1] found along the coast of what is now California, during the late Miocene.
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Gomphotaria | |
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Restoration of Gomphotaria pugnax | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Carnivora |
Clade: | Pinnipedia |
Family: | Odobenidae |
Genus: | †Gomphotaria Barnes & Rashke, 1991 |
Type species | |
†Gomphotaria pugnax Barnes & Rashke, 1991[1] |
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