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Pontolis is an
extinct genus of
large walrus. It
contained three species, P. magnus, P. barroni, and P. kohnoi. Like all pinnipeds,
Pontolis was a heavily...
- †Proneotherium †Nanodobenus †Neotherium †Imagotaria †Kamtschatarctos †Pelagiarctos †
Pontolis †Pseudotaria †Titanotaria
Clade Neodobenia †Gomphotaria
Subfamily Dusignathinae...
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canines and fed on fish
instead of mollusks.
Later taxa like Gomphotaria,
Pontolis and
Dusignathus had
longer canines on both the
upper and
lower jaw. The...
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biggest odobenid and one of the
biggest pinnipeds to have ever
existed is
Pontolis magnus, with a
skull length of 60 cm (24 in) (twice as
large as the skulls...
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pinniped with
skull length of
around 47 cm (19 in), surp****ed only by
Pontolis,
which had a
skull of 60 cm (24 in) long.
Gomphotaria had comparatively...
- †Imagotaria †Kamtschatarctos †Nanodobenus †Neotherium †Osodobenus †Pelagiarctos †
Pontolis †Proneotherium †Prototaria †Pseudotaria †Titanotaria Neodobenia...
- †Imagotaria †Kamtschatarctos †Nanodobenus †Neotherium †Osodobenus †Pelagiarctos †
Pontolis †Proneotherium †Prototaria †Pseudotaria †Titanotaria Neodobenia...
- 1968 †
Pontolis True, 1905 †
Pontolis barroni Biewer, Velez-Juarbe & Parham, 2020 †
Pontolis kohnoi Biewer, Velez-Juarbe & Parham, 2020 †
Pontolis magnus...
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Capistrano Formation,
which also
yielded the
fossils of the
walrus Pontolis magnus,
Pontolis kohnoi and
Titanotaria orangensis.
During the
Miocene to Pliocene...
- †Imagotaria †Kamtschatarctos †Nanodobenus †Neotherium †Osodobenus †Pelagiarctos †
Pontolis †Proneotherium †Prototaria †Pseudotaria †Titanotaria Neodobenia...
