Callorhinus

Callorhinus
Temporal range: Pliocene - Recent
Northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus)
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Parvorder: Pinnipedia
Family: Otariidae
Subfamily: Arctocephalinae
Genus:
Gray, 1859
Type species
Arctocephalus ursinus
Gray, 1859
Species

Callorhinus is a genus of sea lion. It contains the living northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus) as well as the extinct Callorhinus gilmorei and an unnamed species, both from the Pliocene and very beginning of the Pleistocene.[1]

Callorhinus may be a sister genus to the extinct giant otariid, Thalassoleon.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ a b Berta, Annalisa (2017). The Rise of Marine Mammals: 50 Million Years of Evolution. Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 98–100. ISBN 9781421423265.
  2. ^ Berta, Annalisa; Deméré, Thomas A. (1986). "Callorhinus gilmorei n. sp., (Carnivora: Otariidae) from the San Diego Formation (Blancan) and its implications for otariid phylogeny". Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History. 21 (7): 111–126. Retrieved 5 July 2024 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
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