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Miosiren

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Miosiren
Temporal range: Early Miocene
Miosiren kocki skeleton
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Sirenia
Family: Trichechidae
Subfamily: Miosireninae
Genus: Miosiren
Dollo, 1889
Species
  • Miosiren canhami (Flower, 1874)
  • Miosiren kocki Dollo, 1889 (type)

Miosiren is an extinct genus of manatee from the Early Miocene of southeastern England (Suffolk) and Antwerp, Belgium.[1]

M. canhami fossils

Two species are recognized, M. canhami and M. kocki.

Phylogeny

A 2014 cladistic analysis of extinct sirenians recovered Miosiren as a close relative of Anomotherium in a separate subfamily within Trichechidae, Miosireninae.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Fossilworks: Miosiren".
  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