Eosiren
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| Eosiren Temporal range: Late Eocene-Oligocene
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| Genus: | Eosiren Abel, 1913
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Eosiren is an extinct genus of sea cow that lived during the Late Eocene (later Priabonian) to Early Oligocene (Rupelian).[1] Several fossils have been found in Egypt. It seems like the species E. abeli were contemporaneous with Protosiren and Eotheroides.[1] like them, Eosiren closely resembled modern sirenians. It differes from them by having somewhat larger innominates and possess thigh bones.[1]
Eosiren was first described by vertebrage paleontologist Charles William Andrews in 1902, who distinguished it from the genus Halitherium due to differences in the teeth and mandible.[2] Later that year, Science published a summary of his findings in a collection on advances in .[3]
References[]
- ^ a b c Zalmout I.S. & Gingerich P.D. (2012), “Late Eocene sea cows (Mammalia, Sirenia) from Wadi al Hitan in the western desert of Fayum, Egypt”, University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology No. 37
- ^ Andrews, C. W. (1902). "II.—Preliminary Note on some Recently Discovered Extinct Vertebrates from Egypt. (Part III.)" (PDF). Geological Magazine. 9 (7): 291. doi:10.1017/S0016756800181178.
- ^ Osborn, H. F. (31 October 1902). "Recent Zoopaleontology". Science. 16 (409): 715. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
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