Semantor
| Semantor Temporal range:
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | †Semantoridae |
| Genus: | †Semantor |
| Species: | †S. macrurus
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| Binomial name | |
| †Semantor macrurus Orlov, 1931
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Semantor is an extinct genus of stem-pinniped that belongs to and is the type genus for the family Semantoridae. It lived in Kazakhstan during the upper Miocene epoch.[1] It is a monotypic genus containing one species, Semantor macrurus.[2]
It has characteristics similar to that of otters and seals possibly occupying a similar life-style but part of a different clade of animals.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Berta, Annalisa; Churchill, Morgan; Boessenecker, Robert W. (2018-05-30). "The Origin and Evolutionary Biology of Pinnipeds: Seals, Sea Lions, and Walruses". Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences. 46: 203–228. doi:10.1146/annurev-earth-082517-010009. ISSN 0084-6597.
- ^ "Semantor macrurus Orlov, 1932". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2025-12-17.
- ^ V. V. Bogachev. 1940. A finding of a new sea mammal in the Apsheron stage near Baku. Priroda 94:94-94