Callorhinus gilmorei
Appearance
Callorhinus gilmorei Temporal range: Pliocene - Early Pleistocene
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Carnivora |
Clade: | Pinnipedia |
Family: | Otariidae |
Genus: | Callorhinus |
Species: | †C. gilmorei
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Binomial name | |
†Callorhinus gilmorei Berta & Deméré, 1986
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Callorhinus gilmorei is an extinct species of fur seal that lived in Japan and western North America during the Pliocene and Early Pleistocene.[1][2]
Callorhinus gilmorei was similar to its close relative, the living northern fur seal. It mainly differed in having more primitive dental features, such as double-rooted cheek teeth.[3]
References
- ^ Berta, A. & Churchill, M. (2012). "Pinniped Taxonomy: evidence for species and subspecies". Mammal Review. 42 (3): 207–234. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2907.2011.00193.x.
- ^ Berta, Annalisa (2017). The Rise of Marine Mammals: 50 Million Years of Evolution. Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 98-100. ISBN 9781421423265.
- ^ Berta, Annalisa; Demere, Thomas A. (1986). "Callorhinus gilmorei n. sp., (Carnivora: Otariidae) from the San Diego Formation (Blancan) and its implications for otariid phylogeny".
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