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Potamosiren

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Potamosiren
Temporal range: Mid Miocene (Laventan)
~13.8–11.8 Ma
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Sirenia
Family: Trichechidae
Subfamily: Trichechinae
Genus: †Potamosiren
Reinhart 1951
Species
  • Potamosiren magdalensis Reinhart, 1951 (type)

Potamosiren is an extinct genus of manatee from the Middle Miocene (Laventan) Honda Group of Colombia.[1]

Phylogeny

A 2014 cladistic analysis of extinct sirenians recovers Potamosiren as a close relative of modern manatees.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ Potamosiren at Fossilworks.org
  2. ^ M. Voss. 2014. On the invalidity of Halitherium schinzii Kaup, 1838 (Mammalia, Sirenia), with comments on systematic consequences. Zoosystematics and Evolution 90(1):87-93


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