Fig. 2 in Re-Evaluation Of Morphological Characters Questions Current Views Of Pinniped Origins

Fig. 2. Carnivoran skulls showing location of the alisphenoid canal, indicated by arrows, and alisphenoid groove, indicated by double-headed arrows (modified from Koretsky and Rahmat, 2013) in: A — a representative of generalized otariids; B — Southern seal lion (Otaria byronia); C — brown bear (Ursus arctos); D — devinophocine seal Devinophoca emryi (USNM 553684); E — phocine seal Leptophoca lenis (CMM-V 2021); F — sea otter (Enhydra lutris).