Gomphotaria
Sign in to savethumb|left|Restoration of foraging Gomphotaria pugnax with Dusignathus in foreground
Wikidata facts
- Parent taxon
- Odobenidae
- Image
- Gomphotaria pugnax.jpg
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- taxon name
- Gomphotaria
- taxon rank
- genus
- Commons category
- Gomphotaria
- start time
- 7200000-00
- end time
- 5300000-00
- taxon author citation
- Barnes & Rashke, 1991
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thumb|left|Restoration of foraging Gomphotaria pugnax with Dusignathus in foreground
Gomphotaria is a genus of very large shellfish-eating dusignathine walrus found along the coast of what is now California, during the late Miocene.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gomphotaria” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.