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Allodesminae ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	71982	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=71982

Rank

family (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Carnivora : Allodesminae

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Synapsida	Osborn 1903
-	Therapsida
infraorder	Cynodontia
-	Epicynodontia	Hopson and Kitching 2001
infraorder	Eucynodontia	Kemp 1982
-	Probainognathia	Hopson 1990
-	Mammaliamorpha	Rowe 1988
-	Mammaliaformes	Rowe 1988
class	Mammalia	Linnaeus 1758
subclass	Tribosphenida
infraclass	Eutheria
-	Placentalia	Owen 1837
-	Laurasiatheria	Waddell et al. 1999
-	Scrotifera	Waddell et al. 1999
-	Ferae	Linnaeus 1758
-	Carnivoramorpha	Wyss and Flynn 1993
-	Carnivoraformes	Flynn et al.
order	Carnivora	Bowditch 1821
superfamily	Arctoidea	Flower 1869
-	Pinnipedimorpha	Berta et al. 1989
-	Pinnipedia
family	Desmatophocidae	Hay 1930
family	Allodesminae	Mitchell 1968

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Allodesminae	family	belongs to Pinnipedia	stated without evidence	Kellogg, 1931
Allodesminae	family	belongs to Otariidae	stated without evidence	Mitchell, 1968
Allodesminae	family	belongs to Desmatophocidae	stated without evidence	Kohno, 1996
Allodesminae	family	belongs to Otariidae	stated without evidence	Kimura, 1997
Allodesminae	family	belongs to Desmatophocidae	stated without evidence	Koretsky and Barnes, 2006
Allodesminae	family	belongs to Desmatophocidae	stated with evidence	Boessenecker and Churchill, 2018

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

28.1 - 23.0 Ma
Cenozoic

Last Recorded Appearance

11.6 - 5.3 Ma
Miocene

Environment

marine (based on Pinnipedia)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

carnivore (based on Pinnipedimorpha)

Reproduction

viviparous (based on Pinnipedimorpha)

Ontogeny

modification of parts (based on Pinnipedimorpha)

Taphonomy

hydroxylapatite (based on Pinnipedimorpha)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

E. D. Mitchell. 1968. The Mio-Pliocene pinniped Imagotaria. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada 25(9):1843-1900

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Allodesmus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		23	28.1 Ma Oligocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Atopotarus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	20.4 Ma Miocene	16.0 Ma Miocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1931	Allodesmidae Kellogg p. 227
1968	Allodesmidae Mitchell p. 227
1968	Allodesminae Mitchell p. 1897
1979	Allodesminae Barnes p. 8
1989	Allodesminae Barnes p. 3
1995	Allodesminae Barnes and Hirota p. 330

Year	Name and Author
1996	Allodesminae Kohno p. 389
1997	Allodesminae Kimura p. 3
2006	Allodesminae Koretsky and Barnes p. 145
2008	Allodesminae Barnes p. 530
2018	Allodesminae Boessenecker and Churchill p. 19 figs. Table 9
2018	Allodesminae Tonomori et al. p. 3

References

Mitchell E. D. (1968) The Mio-Pliocene pinniped Imagotaria, Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada 25 9, 1843-1900

Kellogg R. (1931) Pelagic mammals of the Temblor Formation of the Kern River region, California, Proceedings of the California Academy of Science 19 12, 217-397

Barnes L. G. (1979) Fossil enaliarctine pinnpeds (Mammalia: Otariidae) from Pyramid Hill, Kern County, California), Contributions in Science of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 318, 1-41

Barnes L. G. (1989) A new enaliarctine pinniped from the Astoria Formation, Oregon, and a classification of the Otariidae (Mammalia: Carnivora), Contributions in Science 403, 1-26

Barnes L. G., Hirota K. (1995) Miocene pinnipeds of the otariid subfamily Allodesminae in the North Pacific Ocean: Systematics and relationships, The Island Arc 3, 329-360

Kohno N. (1996) Miocene pinniped Allodesmus (Mammalia: Carnivora); with special reference to the "Mito seal" from Ibaraki Prefecture, Central Japan, Transactions and Proceedings of the Palaeontological Society of Japan, New Series 181, 388-404

Kimura M. (1997) Fossil pinniped mandible from the Middle Miocene of Haboro-cho, Hokkaid, Bulletin of the Hobetsu Museum 13, 1-7

Koretsky I. A., Barnes L. G. (2006) Pinniped Evolutionary History and Paleobiogeography, Mesozoic and Cenozoic Vertebrates and Paleoenvironments: Tributes to the career of Prof. Dan Grigorescu, 143-153

Barnes L. G. (2008) Otarioidea, Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America 2, 523-541

Boessenecker R. W., Churchill M. (2018) The last of the desmatophocid seals: a new species of Allodesmus from the upper Miocene of Washington, USA, and a revision of the taxonomy of Desmatophocidae, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 184 1, 211-235 doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx098/4783131

Tonomori W., Sawamura H., et al (2018) A new Miocene pinniped Allodesmus (Mammalia: Carnivora) from Hokkaido, northern Japan, Royal Society Open Science 5 5, 172440 doi:10.1098/rsos.172440

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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