Hydrodamalinae

Hydrodamalinae; Temporal range: 15.97–0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Middle Miocene to Holocene
	Model of steller's sea cow
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Sirenia
Family:	Dugongidae
Subfamily:	†Hydrodamalinae; Palmer 1895
Genera
	†Dusisiren; Domning 1978; †Hydrodamalis; Retzius 1794;
Synonyms
	Hydrodamalidae;

Hydrodamalinae is a recently extinct subfamily of the sirenian family Dugongidae. The Steller's sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas) was hunted to extinction by 1768, while the genus Dusisiren is known from fossils dating from the middle Miocene to early Pliocene.^[1]

References

Notes

^ ^a ^b "Hydrodamalinae". Fossilworks. Retrieved 17 December 2021.

Sources

Domning, D. P. (1978). "Sirenian evolution in the North Pacific Ocean". University of California Publications in Geological Sciences. 118: 1–176. OCLC 4919036.
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Palmer, T. S. (1895). "The Earliest Name for Steller's Sea Cow and Dugong". Science. 2 (40): 449–450. doi:10.1126/science.2.40.449-a. PMID 17759916. S2CID 36945810. Retrieved 17 December 2021.(PDF)
- "T. S. Palmer 1895". Fossilworks.
Retzius, A. J. (1794). "Anmärkningar vid genus Trichechi". Kungl. Sve. Vetenskapsakad. Nya Handl. 15: 286–300. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
- "A. J. Retzius 1794". Fossilworks.

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