Valenictus chulavistensis is an extinct walrus of California, one of the species of the genus Valenictus, an odobenid from the Pliocene of that state. The species was named in 1994, and the Paleobiology Database records it from two sites in California, dated between about 4.7 and 1.4 million years ago. Valenictus is related to the modern walrus but lacked all teeth in both the lower and upper jaw except for the two tusks. The English Wikipedia article on the genus is short and gives no body size or diet for this species, so this entry records its identity, age, place and the tooth pattern of its genus.
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Valenictus is an extinct genus of Odobenidae from the Pliocene of California.
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1. List of fossil pinnipedimorphs (Wikipedia)
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Pinnipeds are marine mammals that evolved from arctoid carnivorans that includes seals, eared seals, and walruses.
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Valenictus is an extinct genus of Odobenidae from the Pliocene of California.
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