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Pithanotaria

Mammalia - Carnivora - Otariidae

Taxonomy

Pithanotaria was named by Kellogg (1925) [Sepkoski's age data: T Mi-m T Mi-u Sepkoski's reference number: 746]. Its type is Pithanotaria starri.

It was assigned to Arctocephalini by Mitchell (1968); to Arctocephalinae by Muizon (1978); to Carnivora by Sepkoski (2002); to Otariinae by Barnes (1989), Koretsky and Barnes (2006), Barnes (2008); to Otariidae by Kellogg (1925), Hay (1930), Repenning and Tedford (1977), Carroll (1988), McKenna and Bell (1997), Berta (2002), Berta (2009), Boessenecker and Churchill (2015), Berta (2017), Berta (2018); and to Otariidae by Boessenecker (2011), Berta et al. (2018), Tsuzuku and Kohno (2020).

Species

P. starri (type species)

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1925	Pithanotaria Kellogg p. 74 figs. Fig. 1-2, 4-8, Plate 12-13
1930	Pithanotaria Hay p. 558
1968	Pithanotaria Mitchell p. 1897
1977	Pithanotaria Repenning and Tedford p. 58
1978	Pithanotaria Muizon p. 184
1988	Pithanotaria Carroll
1989	Pithanotaria Barnes p. 23
1997	Pithanotaria McKenna and Bell p. 253
2002	Pithanotaria Berta p. 923
2002	Pithanotaria Sepkoski
2006	Pithanotaria Koretsky and Barnes p. 145
2008	Pithanotaria Barnes p. 529
2009	Pithanotaria Berta p. 863
2011	Pithanotaria Boessenecker p. 2 figs. Table 1
2015	Pithanotaria Boessenecker and Churchill figs. Fig. 2
2017	Pithanotaria Berta p. 156
2018	Pithanotaria Berta p. 713 figs. Fig. 3
2018	Pithanotaria Berta et al. p. 210 figs. Fig. 5
2020	Pithanotaria Tsuzuku and Kohno p. 6

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
subclass	Synapsida
—	Therapsida	()
infraorder	Cynodontia	()
—	Mammaliamorpha
—	Mammaliaformes
class	Mammalia

Rank	Name	Author
—	Cladotheria
—	Zatheria
subclass	Tribosphenida	()
subclass	Theria
—	Eutheria	()
—	Placentalia
—	Boreoeutheria
—	Laurasiatheria
—	Scrotifera
—	Ferae	()
—	Carnivoramorpha	Wyss and Flynn 1993
—	Carnivoraformes	Flynn et al.
order	Carnivora
suborder	Caniformia	Kretzoi 1943
infraorder	Canoidea	(Simpson 1931)
superfamily	Arctoidea	Flower 1869
—	Panpinnipedia	Wolsan et al. 2020
—	Pinnipedimorpha
—	Pinnipedia	()
superfamily	Otarioidea
family	Otariidae	()
genus	Pithanotaria

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. †Pithanotaria Kellogg 1925

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†Pithanotaria starri Kellogg 1925

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

hydroxyapatiteuc

Ontogeny:

modification of partsuc

Environment:

marineuc

Locomotion:

actively mobilec

Life habit:

amphibiousuc

Diet:

piscivoret

Reproduction:

viviparousuc

Created:

2005-06-08 10:11:09

Modified:

2005-06-08 12:11:09

Source: t = tribe, c = class, uc = unranked clade

References: Nowak 1991, Carreño and Cronin 1993, Gingerich 2003, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: base of the Langhian to the top of the Messinian or 15.97000 to 5.33300 Ma

Collections (15 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Langhian - Serravallian	15.97 - 11.62	USA (California)	P. sp. (46069 121152)
Tortonian	11.62 - 7.246	USA (California)	P. sp. (52184) P. starri (13300 45489 46070 52213 59157 106202 152110 225298 225299 225307 225310)
Messinian	7.246 - 5.333	USA (California)	P. starri (59148)