Necromites

Not to be confused with Neocomites.

Necromites
Temporal range: Upper Pliocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: †Semantoridae
Genus: †Necromites
V. V. Bogachev. 1940
Species:
†N. nestoris
Binomial name
†Necromites nestoris
V. V. Bogachev. 1940

Necromites is extinct genus of stem-pinniped belonging to the extinct family Semantoridae during the upper Pliocene epoch. It is a monotypic genus with the only species in this genus being Necromites nestoris.

It was named in honor of Nestor Smirnov, a Soviet specialist in Pinnipeds.

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