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Taxonomy
Callorhinus was named by Gray (1859) [Sepkoski's age data: T Plio R Sepkoski's reference number: 746]. It is extant.
It was synonymized subjectively with Arctocephalus by Gill (1866); it was replaced with Callotaria by Palmer (1892), Allen (1902) and Trouessart (1904); it was reranked as Arctocephalus (Callorhinus) by Trouessart (1898).
It was assigned to Arctocephalina by Gray (1866); to Callorhinina by Gray (1871); to Arctocephalus by Trouessart (1898); to Arctocephalini by Mitchell (1968); to Callorhinae by Muizon (1978); to Arctocephalinae by Scheffer and Rice (1963), Berta and Deméré (1986) and Riedman (1990); to Carnivora by Sepkoski (2002); to Otariinae by Barnes (1989), Koretsky and Barnes (2006) and Barnes (2008); to Otariidae by Allen (1880), Palmer (1904), Repenning and Tedford (1977), Carroll (1988), McKenna and Bell (1997), Rice (1998), Berta (2002), Deméré et al. (2003), Berta et al. (2006), Berta (2009), Boessenecker (2013), Boessenecker and Churchill (2013), Boessenecker and Churchill (2015) and Berta (2018); and to Otariidae by Kurten and Anderson (1980), Wilson and Reeder (2005), Berta et al. (2018) and Tsuzuku and Kohno (2020).
It was synonymized subjectively with Arctocephalus by Gill (1866); it was replaced with Callotaria by Palmer (1892), Allen (1902) and Trouessart (1904); it was reranked as Arctocephalus (Callorhinus) by Trouessart (1898).
It was assigned to Arctocephalina by Gray (1866); to Callorhinina by Gray (1871); to Arctocephalus by Trouessart (1898); to Arctocephalini by Mitchell (1968); to Callorhinae by Muizon (1978); to Arctocephalinae by Scheffer and Rice (1963), Berta and Deméré (1986) and Riedman (1990); to Carnivora by Sepkoski (2002); to Otariinae by Barnes (1989), Koretsky and Barnes (2006) and Barnes (2008); to Otariidae by Allen (1880), Palmer (1904), Repenning and Tedford (1977), Carroll (1988), McKenna and Bell (1997), Rice (1998), Berta (2002), Deméré et al. (2003), Berta et al. (2006), Berta (2009), Boessenecker (2013), Boessenecker and Churchill (2013), Boessenecker and Churchill (2015) and Berta (2018); and to Otariidae by Kurten and Anderson (1980), Wilson and Reeder (2005), Berta et al. (2018) and Tsuzuku and Kohno (2020).
Species
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1859 | Callorhinus Gray |
| 1866 | Callorhinus Gray p. 44 |
| 1871 | Callorhinus Gray p. 4 |
| 1880 | Callorhinus Allen p. 209 |
| 1896 | Callorhynchus Greve p. 322 |
| 1898 | Arctocephalus (Callorhinus) Trouessart p. 372 |
| 1904 | Callorhinus Palmer p. 153 |
| 1904 | Callorhynchus Palmer p. 153 |
| 1963 | Callorhinus Scheffer and Rice p. 2 |
| 1968 | Callorhinus Mitchell p. 1897 |
| 1977 | Callorhinus Repenning and Tedford p. 57 |
| 1978 | Callorhinus Muizon p. 183 |
| 1980 | Callorhinus Kurten and Anderson p. 202 |
| 1986 | Callorhinus Berta and Deméré p. 112 |
| 1988 | Callorhinus Carroll |
| 1989 | Callorhinus Barnes p. 23 |
| 1990 | Callorhinus Riedman p. 58 figs. Table 2 |
| 1997 | Callorhinus McKenna and Bell p. 253 |
| 1998 | Callorhinus Rice |
| 2002 | Callorhinus Berta p. 923 |
| 2002 | Callorhinus Sepkoski |
| 2003 | Callorhinus Deméré et al. p. 49 figs. Fig. 3.3 |
| 2005 | Callorhinus Wilson and Reeder |
| 2006 | Callorhinus Berta et al. p. 496 |
| 2006 | Callorhinus Koretsky and Barnes p. 145 |
| 2008 | Callorhinus Barnes p. 529 |
| 2009 | Callorhinus Berta p. 863 |
| 2013 | Callorhinus Boessenecker p. 824 |
| 2013 | Callorhinus Boessenecker and Churchill p. 10 fig. 8 |
| 2015 | Callorhinus Boessenecker and Churchill figs. Fig. 2 |
| 2018 | Callorhinus Berta p. 713 figs. Fig. 2 |
| 2018 | Callorhinus Berta et al. p. 210 figs. Fig. 5 |
| 2020 | Callorhinus Tsuzuku and Kohno p. 6 |
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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.
G. Callorhinus Gray 1859 [fur seal]
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†Callorhinus gilmorei Berta and Deméré 1986
Callorhinus ursinus Linnaeus 1758 [northern fur seal]
Invalid names: Callorhynchus Greve 1896 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Blancan to the top of the Holocene or 4.90000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 3.6 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 3.6 Ma
Collections (30 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Zanclean | USA (California) | Arctocephalinae indet. (154092) Callorhinus gilmorei (117471 184964) | |
| Pliocene | Japan | Callorhinus sp. (101859) | |
| Blancan | Mexico (Baja California) | Callorhinus gilmorei (58992) | |
| Piacenzian | Japan | Callorhinus gilmorei (101907) | |
| Piacenzian | USA (California) | Callorhinus gilmorei (19703 184951 184953 184967) | |
| Piacenzian - Gelasian | USA (California) | Callorhinus gilmorei (107487) | |
| Gelasian | USA (California) | Callorhinus gilmorei (75485) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | USA (California) | Callorhinus gilmorei (75484) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Japan (Kanagawa) | Callorhinus ursinus (102985) | |
| Gelasian - Calabrian | USA (California) | Callorhinus sp. (107486) | |
| Pleistocene | USA (Oregon) | Callorhinus sp. (59062) | |
| Pleistocene | USA (Alaska) | Callorhinus ursinus (81910) | |
| Calabrian | USA (California) | Callorhinus sp. (75486) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Japan (Aomori) | Callorhinus ursinus (101897) | |
| Rancholabrean | USA (California) | Callorhinus ursinus (81921) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Japan (Aomori) | Callorhinus ursinus (101898 101899) | |
| Holocene | Japan | Callorhinus sp. (168602) | |
| Holocene | USA (Alaska) | Callorhinus ursinus (90116 161613 175943 175944 175945 175946 175947) |