- Neotherium
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Neotherium
Temporal range: Middle MioceneScientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Carnivora Family: Odobenidae Subfamily: Imagotariinae Genus: Neotherium
Kellogg, 1931Species: N. mirum Binomial name Neotherium mirum
Kellogg, 1931Neotherium mirum is an extinct species of walrus.[1] 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.
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