| Callorhinus | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Clade: | Pinnipedia |
| Family: | Otariidae |
| Subfamily: | Arctocephalinae |
| Genus: | Callorhinus 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 2 Berta, Annalisa (2017). The Rise of Marine Mammals: 50 Million Years of Evolution. Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 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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