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Phocidae 



Desmatophocidae 



Odobenidae 



Otariidae 



Ursidae 



Amphicyonidae 



Procyonidae 



Ailurus 



Mustelinae 



Melinae 



Mephitinae 



Lutrinae 



Canidae 



Felidae 



Hyaenidae 



Viverridae 



Herpestidae 



Nimravidae 



Viverravidae 



Miacidae 



Creodonta 



Acrophoca 



Piscophoca 



Homiphoca 



Mirounga 



Monachus 



Lobodontini 



Cystophora 



Phocini 



Erignathus 



Allodesmus 



Desmatophoca 



Pinnarctidion 



Gomphotaria 



Odobenus 



Aivukus 



Imagotaria 



Arctocephalus 



Otariinae 



Callorhinus 



Thalassoleon 



Pteronarctos 



Enaliarctos 



Mustelidae 



Ursidae 



Procyonidae 



Amphicyonidae 



Fig.6C-D: Majority rule consensus solutions with bootstrap frequencies resulting from bootstrap 

 analyses (1,000 replications) of various •'rival'" data matrices for examining pinniped phytogeny: (C) 

 Wyss & Flynn (1993) and (D) Berta & Wyss (1994). 



