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Callorhinus ursinus (northern fur seal)

Osteichthyes - Carnivora - Otariidae

Taxonomy
Phoca ursina was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant. Its type specimen is 1.

It was recombined as Arctocephalus ursinus by Gray (1850), Scott (1873), Palmer (1904), Turner (1912); it was recombined as Arctocephalus ursina by Gill (1866); it was recombined as Arctocephalus (Callorhinus) ursinus by Trouessart (1898); it was synonymized subjectively with Arctocephalus (Arctocephalus) pusillus by Trouessart (1904); it was recombined as Callorhinus ursinus by Gray (1866), Gray (1871), Allen (1880), Thomas (1911), Scheffer and Rice (1963), Repenning and Tedford (1977), Kurten and Anderson (1980), Riedman (1990), Deméré et al. (2003), Wilson and Reeder (2005), Koretsky and Barnes (2006), Cullen et al. (2014), Boessenecker and Churchill (2015), Berta et al. (2018).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1758Phoca ursina Linnaeus p. 37
1850Arctocephalus ursinus Gray p. 41
1866Arctocephalus ursina Gill p. 7
1866Callorhinus ursinus Gray p. 44
1866Arctocephalus californianus Gray p. 51
1871Callorhinus ursinus Gray p. 15
1873Arctocephalus ursinus Scott p. 8
1880Callorhinus ursinus Allen p. 210
1898Arctocephalus (Callorhinus) ursinus Trouessart p. 372
1904Arctocephalus ursinus Palmer p. 117
1911Callorhinus ursinus Thomas p. 133
1912Arctocephalus ursinus Turner p. 173
1963Callorhinus ursinus Scheffer and Rice p. 2
1977Callorhinus ursinus Repenning and Tedford p. 73
1980Callorhinus ursinus Kurten and Anderson p. 202
1990Callorhinus ursinus Riedman p. 58 figs. Table 2
2003Callorhinus ursinus Deméré et al. p. 49 figs. Fig. 3.3
2005Callorhinus ursinus Wilson and Reeder p. 593
2006Callorhinus ursinus Koretsky and Barnes p. 145
2014Callorhinus ursinus Cullen et al. p. 1471 figs. Figure 1
2015Callorhinus ursinus Boessenecker and Churchill figs. Fig. 2
2018Callorhinus ursinus Berta et al. p. 215 figs. Fig. 5

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Cladotheria
RankNameAuthor
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—Boreoeutheria
—Laurasiatheria
—Scrotifera
—Ferae()
—Pancarnivora
—CarnivoramorphaWyss and Flynn 1993
—CarnivoraformesFlynn et al.
orderCarnivora
suborderCaniformiaKretzoi 1943
infraorderCanoidea(Simpson 1931)
superfamilyArctoideaFlower 1869
—PanpinnipediaWolsan et al. 2020
—Pinnipedimorpha
—Pinnipedia()
superfamilyOtarioidea
familyOtariidae()
genusCallorhinusGray 1859
speciesursinus()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Callorhinus ursinus Linnaeus 1758 [northern fur seal]
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Invalid names: Arctocephalus californianus Gray 1866 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
partNmean

Composition: hydroxyapatiteuc
Ontogeny: modification of partsuc
Environment: marineuc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: amphibiousuc
Diet: piscivoret
Reproduction: viviparousuc
Created: 2005-06-08 10:11:09
Modified: 2005-06-08 12:11:09
Source: t = tribe, c = class, uc = unranked clade
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carreño and Cronin 1993, Nowak 1991, Gingerich 2003

Age range: base of the Early/Lower Pleistocene to the top of the Holocene or 2.58000 to 0.00000 Ma

Collections (15 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Pleistocene2.58 - 0.774Japan (Kanagawa) Callorhinus ursinus (102985)
Pleistocene2.58 - 0.0117USA (Alaska) Callorhinus ursinus (81910)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129Japan (Aomori) Callorhinus ursinus (101897)
Rancholabrean0.21 - 0.014USA (California) Callorhinus ursinus (81921)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Japan (Aomori) Callorhinus ursinus (101898 101899)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0USA (California) Callorhinus ursinus (239418)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0USA (Alaska) Callorhinus ursinus (90116 161613 175943 175944 175945 175946 175947 236014)