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Valenictus Temporal range: Pliocene

Underside of skull
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Clade:	Pinnipedia
Family:	Odobenidae
Subfamily:	Odobeninae
Genus:	† Valenictus Mitchell, 1961
Species
†V. chulavistensis †V. imperialensis †V. sheperdi

Valenictus is an extinct genus of Odobenidae from the Pliocene of California.

Description

Valenictus is related to the modern-day walrus, but lacked all teeth both in the lower and upper jaw except for the two tusks.^[1]

References

^ "Walrus". The Nat. San Diego Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 5 June 2022.

Genera of pinnipeds and their stem-allies

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Suborder: Caniformia
Infraorder: Arctoidea

† Amphicynodontidae	Allocyon Amphicticeps Amphicynodon Drassonax Kolponomos Pachycynodon Parictis Wangictis
† Semantoridae	Necromites Potamotherium Puijila Semantor

Pinnipedimorpha

† Enaliarctos

Pinnipediformes

† Devinophoca

† 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

† 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↓

† Desmatophocidae

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

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

† Eotaria

Callorhinus
† Pithanotaria

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

Gomphotaria pugnax

Lists
List of pinnipeds List of fossil pinnipedimorphs

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