“…Two of these, the mammalian order Desmostylia entering during the Early Oligocene (Beatty, ; Ray, Domning, & McKenna, ) and the bear‐like amphicynodontid genus Kolponomos entering in the Late Oligocene (Tedford, Barnes, & Ray, ) are extinct. The other groups are still extant: sea lions and fur seals (Pinnipedimorpha), known first in the Late Oligocene (Poust & Boessenecker, ); the sea‐otter Enhydra , entering during the Pliocene (Willemsen, ); and Pacific salmon of the genus Oncorhynchus , whose freshwater ancestors first became partly marine in the Early Miocene (Crespi & Fulton, ; Crête‐Lafrenière, Weir, & Bernatchez, ; Shedko, Miroshnichenko, & Nemkova, ). It is likely that the Desmostylia and the sea otter entered from the Asian side, whereas pinnipeds, Kolponomos and Salmonidae almost certainly entered the North Pacific from North America.…”