| Pontolis | |
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| A life restoration of Pontolis magnus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Suborder: | Caniformia |
| Superfamily: | Pinnipedia |
| Family: | Odobenidae |
| Subfamily: | Dusignathinae |
| Genus: | †Pontolis True, 1905 |
| Species: | †P. magnus |
| Binomial name | |
| †Pontolis magnus True, 1905 | |
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Pontolis is an extinct genus of large pinniped closely related to a modern-day walrus. It contained only the single species Pontolis magnus.
An amphibious carnivore, it was found in formerly marine or coastal areas in what is now California and Oregon, dating between 11.608 and 5.332 million years ago, during the Miocene and Pliocene.