Neotherium

Neotherium; Temporal range: Middle Miocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Family:	Odobenidae
Subfamily:	Imagotariinae
Genus:	Neotherium; Kellogg, 1931
Species:	N. mirum
Binomial name
	Neotherium mirum; Kellogg, 1931

Neotherium mirum is an extinct species of basal walrus.^[1]^[2] It was smaller than living forms and it did not have long tusks. Males were larger than females.

References

^ Naoki Kohno, Lawrence G. Barnes & Kiyoharu Hirota (1994). "Miocene fossil pinnipeds of the genera Prototaria and Neotherium (Carnivora; Otariidae; Imagotariinae) in the North Pacific Ocean: Evolution, relationships and distribution". The Island Arc. 3 (4): 285–308. doi:10.1111/j.1440-1738.1994.tb00117.x.
^ Berta, Annalisa. 2002b. Pinniped Evolution in Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals, eds. Perrin, William F., Bernd Würsig, and J. G. M. Thewissen. Academic Press.

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[1] Naoki Kohno, Lawrence G. Barnes & Kiyoharu Hirota (1994). "Miocene fossil pinnipeds of the genera Prototaria and Neotherium (Carnivora; Otariidae; Imagotariinae) in the North Pacific Ocean: Evolution, relationships and distribution". The Island Arc. 3 (4): 285–308. doi:10.1111/j.1440-1738.1994.tb00117.x.

[2] Berta, Annalisa. 2002b. Pinniped Evolution in Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals, eds. Perrin, William F., Bernd Würsig, and J. G. M. Thewissen. Academic Press.

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