Pinnipedimorphs Temporal range: Oligocene–Holocene, 24–0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N

Artist reconstruction of Enaliarctos emlongi
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Clade:	Pan-Pinnipedia
Clade:	Pinnipedimorpha Berta et al., 1989
Subtaxa
†Enaliarctidae Mitchell & Tedford, 1973 Pinnipediformes Berta, 1994 †Pinnarctidion Barnes, 1979 †Pacificotaria Barnes, 1992 †Pteronarctos Barnes, 1989 Pinnipedia Illiger, 1811

Pinnipedimorpha is a clade of arctoid carnivorans that is defined to include the last common ancestor of Phoca and Enaliarctos, and all descendants of that ancestor.^[1] Scientists still debate on which lineage of arctoid carnivorans are the closest relatives to the pinnipedimorphs, being more closely related to musteloids.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]

Below is an overall phylogeny of the taxa covered in the article followed after a composite tree in Berta et al. (2018)^[1] and a total-evidence (combined molecular-morphological) dataset in Paterson et al. (2020):^[7]

†Semantoridae

Pinnipedimorpha

†Enaliarctidae

Pinnipediformes

†Pinnarctidion

	†Pacificotaria

	†Pteronarctos

Pinnipedia

Phocoidea

	Phocidae

	†Eotaria

	Otariidae

References

†Magnotherium
Monachini	†Afrophoca †Auroraphoca †Messiphoca Monachus Neomonachus †Eomonachus †Noriphoca †Palmidophoca †Pliophoca †Pontophoca †Pristiphoca †Terranectes
Miroungini	†Callophoca Mirounga
Lobodontini	†Acrophoca †Australophoca †Hadrokirus †Homiphoca Hydrurga Leptonychotes Lobodon Ommatophoca †Piscophoca †Properiptychus †Virginiaphoca

Phocinae

†Cryptophoca †Frisiphoca †Kawas †Leptophoca †Monachopsis †Monotherium †Phocanella †Prophoca †Sarmatonectes
Erignathini	Erignathus †Platyphoca
Cystophorini	Cystophora †Miophoca †Pachyphoca
Phocini	†Batavipusa †Gryphoca Halichoerus Histriophoca †Nanophoca Pagophilus Phoca †Planopusa †Praepusa Pusa

Otarioidea	see below↓

Otarioidea

†Desmatophocidae

Allodesmus
Atopotarus
Desmatophoca
Eodesmus

Odobenidae

†Archaeodobenus
†Imagotaria
†Kamtschatarctos
†Nanodobenus
†Neotherium
†Osodobenus
†Pelagiarctos
†Pontolis
†Proneotherium
†Prototaria
†Pseudotaria
†Titanotaria

Neodobenia

†Dusignathinae	Dusignathus Gomphotaria
Odobeninae	†Aivukus Odobenus †Ontocetus †Pliopedia †Protodobenus †Valenictus

Panotariidae

†Eotaria

Otariidae

Callorhinae

Callorhinus
†Pithanotaria

Otariinae

†Thalassoleon
Zalophini	Eumetopias †Oriensarctos †Proterozetes Zalophus
Otariini	Arctocephalus Arctophoca †Hydrarctos Neophoca Otaria Phocarctos

Lists
List of pinnipeds List of fossil pinnipedimorphs

See also

References

Further reading