Neotherium
| Neotherium Temporal range:
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Clade: | Pinnipedia |
| Family: | Odobenidae |
| Genus: | †Neotherium Kellogg, 1931 |
| Species: | †N. mirum
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| †Neotherium mirum Kellogg, 1931
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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.
Palaeoecology
[edit]Stable isotope evidence indicates that in the eastern North Pacific, Neotherium had intermediate foraging habits between the nearshore specialist Pithanotaria and the offshore specialist Allodesmus.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ 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. Bibcode:1994IsArc...3..285K. 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.
- ^ Valenzuela-Toro, Ana M.; Pyenson, Nicholas D.; Costa, Daniel P.; Clementz, Mark; Koch, Paul L. (1 September 2024). "Stable isotope evidence for resource partitioning in extinct marine carnivores". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 649: 112302. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2024.112302. Retrieved 12 November 2024 – via Elsevier Science Direct.
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