Valenictus imperialensis is an extinct walrus of the genus Valenictus, an odobenid known from the Pliocene of California. Mitchell named the species in 1961, and the Paleobiology Database records two California sites for it and dates them to the Zanclean stage of the early Pliocene, between about 5.3 and 3.6 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 pages read for this entry give no body size, diet or habitat for the species itself, so its entry records its identity, age, region and the tooth pattern that marks 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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