Thalassoleon
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thalassoleon-300-8242807
title:
Thalassoleon
text:
Thalassoleon is an extinct genus of large fur seal. Thalassoleon inhabited the Northern Pacific Ocean in latest Miocene and early Pliocene. Fossils of T. mexicanus are known from Baja California and southern California. T. macnallyae is known from central California, and T. inouei is known from Japan. Thalassoleon could be the ancestor of the modern northern fur seal. T. mexicanus was comparable in size to the largest modern fur seals, with an old-male skull length of 272 mm and an estimated min
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Extinct genus of carnivores
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalassoleon
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date modified:
2024-03-20T00:42:38Z
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image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/Thalassoleon_mexicanus_skull_2.jpg","width":3348,"height":1883}
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13
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