Neotherium

Neotherium
Neotherium
Temporal range: Middle Miocene
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 walrus.[1] It was smaller than living forms and it did not have long tusks. Males were larger than females.

References

  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.