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Thalassoleon

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Kingdom
  
Suborder
  
Caniformia

Family
  
OtariidaeGray, 1825

Rank
  
Genus

Class
  
Superfamily
  
Phylum
  
Chordata

Order
  
Carnivores

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Similar
  
Imagotaria, Carnivores, Desmatophoca, Enaliarctos, Allodesmus

Thalassoleon is an extinct genus of large fur seal. Thalassoleon inhabited the Northern Pacific ocean in latest Miocene and early Pliocene time. Fossils of T. mexicanus are known from Baja California and southern California. T. macnallyae is known from central California, and T. inouei (which may be a synonym of T. macnallyae) is known from Japan. Thalassoleon could be the ancestor of the modern northern fur seal.

T. mexicanus was comparable in size to the largest fur seals, with an estimated weight of 295-318 kg (650-700 lb). T. macnallyae, based on size of the mandible, may have grown much larger, similar in size to a walrus.

References

Thalassoleon Wikipedia


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