Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum

Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum No. 49

Making of restoration model of an enaliarctine pinniped from the lower Miocene Akeyo Formation (Mizunami Group), Mizunami City, Japan

Yusuke Ando, Hirokazu Tokugawa, and Naoki Kohno

Published: 2022/12/27   Page: 167173

A paleontological restoration of the early diverging pinniped, enaliarctine gen. et sp. undet., which was described and identified by Kohno et al. (2021), was presented as a 3D model. The form was reconstructed based on MFM18009 (complete skull, distal half of the left mandible, the atlas, distal half of the left humerus, proximal half of the left ulna, the third metacarpus, thoracic vertebrae and ribs) and restored by the last author’s scientific comments.