What is Pinniped?
{{Automatic taxobox | name = Pinnipedia | fossil_range = [[Chattian|Latest Oligocene]]–[[Holocene]], {{fossilrange|24|0}} | image = Pinniped collage.jpg | image_upright = 1.2 | image_caption = Clockwise from top left: [[New Zealand fur seal]] (''Arctocephalus forsteri''), [[southern elephant seal]] (''Mirounga leonina''), [[Steller sea lion]] (''Eumetopias jubatus''), [[walrus]] (''Odobenus rosmarus'') and [[grey seal]] (''Halichoerus grypus'') | display_parents = 2 | taxon = Pinnipedia | authority = [[Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger|Illiger]], 1811<ref>{{cite book |author=Illiger, J. K. W. |title=Prodromus Systematis Mammalium et Avium |year=1811 |publisher=Sumptibus C.&nbsp;Salfeld |pages=138–39 |url=https://archive.org/stream/caroliilligerida00illi#page/138/mode/2up |language=la}}</ref> | subdivision_ranks = Subclades | subdivision = ** Family †[[Enaliarctidae]] ** Family †[[Desmatophocidae]] * '''Superfamily [[Otarioidea]]''' ** Family [[Odobenidae]] (walruses) ** Family [[Eared seal|Otariidae]] (fur seals and sea lions) * '''Superfamily Phocoidea''' ** Family [[Earless seal|Phocidae]] (true seals) | range_map = Pinniped range.jpg | range_map_upright = 1.15 | range_map_caption = Range map }} [[File:Europäischer Seehund.jpg|thumb|200px|Common Seal (''Phoca vitulina'')]] '''Pinnipeds''' <ref>From [[Latin]] ''pinna'', wing or fin, and ''ped-'', foot.</ref> are the '''seals''' and their relatives, a group of semi-[[aquatic]] [[marine mammal]]s. The '''Pinnipedia''' is in the [[Order (biology)|Order]] [[Carnivora]]. There are three seal families: [[Odobenidae]] ([[walrus]]es), [[Otariidae]] ([[eared seal]]s, including [[sea lion]]s and [[fur seal]]s), and [[Phocidae]] ([[true seal]]s).<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=17996107|title=Phylogeny and divergence of the pinnipeds (Carnivora: Mammalia) assessed using a multigene dataset|author=Jeff W Higdon, Olaf RP Bininda-Emonds, Robin MD Beck, and Steven H Ferguson|journal=BMC Evol Biol. 2007|volume=7|page=21