Kamtschatarctos sinelnikovae is an extinct pinniped of the walrus family Odobenidae that lived during the Miocene in the Kavran-Ukhtolok Bay area of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia. It is known from a partially complete skeleton discovered in the Etolon Formation, and the Paleobiology Database credits its naming to Dubrovo in 1981. The genus is dated to roughly 16 to 11.6 million years ago, which places it in the Middle Miocene, although the English Wikipedia article calls the interval Early Miocene. It is a relatively basal species of odobenid, so it lies near the base of the walrus family tree.
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in the Kavran-Ukhtolok Bay of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula
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Pinnipeds are marine mammals that evolved from arctoid carnivorans that includes seals, eared seals, and walruses.
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Kamtschatarctos is an extinct genus of pinniped
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in the Kavran-Ukhtolok Bay of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula
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