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Puijila darwini is the first mammalian carnivore found in the Haughton lake deposits. This is also an indication that the entire pinniped clade may have originated in the Arctic. [1] The initial find is credited to field assistant Elizabeth Ross, and was partly a matter of luck.
Apr 22, 2009 · Natalia Rybczynski unearthed the new animal at Devon Island, Canada and worked out that it must have swam through the waters of the Arctic circle around 20-24 million years ago. She named it...
Apr 23, 2009 · New evidence on pinniped origins is provided by the discovery of a small mammalian carnivore, Puijila darwini gen. et sp. nov., in Miocene deposits of the Haughton Formation of Devon Island,...
- Natalia Rybczynski, Mary R. Dawson, Richard H. Tedford
- 2009
Apr 22, 2009 · The newfound species, dubbed Puijila darwini, might be the long-sought missing link in the evolution of pinnipeds — a group that includes modern seals, sea lions and walruses — explaining how...
The 110-cm-long animal, Puijila darwini, resembled an otter, with a long tail, doglike teeth, and webbed feet. Like an otter, its body was adapted for swimming but spent most of its time on land.
Apr 22, 2009 · That gap has now been partially filled with the announcement in the journal Nature of Puijila darwini, an early Miocene seal that represents a more terrestrial stage of pinniped evolution. Bear...
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Jan 5, 2012 · Puijila darwini, a carnivorous pinniped, is 20 million to 24 million years old and fills the morphological gap between terrestrial and marine pinniped ancestors. Rybczynski and Dawson discovered the fossil in 2007, in a meteorite impact crater on Devon Island in Canada’s High Arctic.
