Lentiarenium

Lentiarenium; Temporal range: Late Oligocene; ~28–23 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Sirenia
Family:	Dugongidae
Genus:	†Lentiarenium; Voss et al., 2016
Species
	L. christolli (Fitzinger, 1842) (type);

Lentiarenium was an early sea cow from the Late Oligocene (Chattian) of Austria.

Classification[]

It was originally classified as a species of Halitherium, H. christolli, but was eventually recognized as generically distinct from the dugongid remains assigned to H. schinzii, and renamed Lentiarenium in 2016.^[1]^[2]^[3]

References[]

^ L. J. Fitzinger. 1842. Bericht über die in den Sandlagern von Linz aufgefunden fossilen Reste eines urweltlichen Saeugers, (Halitherium Cristolii). Bericht über das Museum Francisco-Carolinum. Linz 6:61-72
^ 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.
^ M. Voss, B. Berning, and E. Reiter. 2016. A taxonomic and morphological re-evaluation of “Halitherium” cristolii Fitzinger, 1842 (Mammalia, Sirenia) from the late Oligocene of Austria, with the description of a new genus. European Journal of Taxonomy 256:1-32

Lentiarenium

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