Potamosiren
Potamosiren | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Sirenia |
Family: | Trichechidae |
Subfamily: | Trichechinae |
Genus: | †Potamosiren Reinhart 1951 |
Species | |
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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[]
- ^ Potamosiren at Fossilworks.org
- ^ 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
Categories:
- Prehistoric placental genera
- Miocene sirenians
- Miocene mammals of South America
- Laventan
- Neogene Colombia
- Fossils of Colombia
- Honda Group, Colombia
- Fossil taxa described in 1951
- Prehistoric afrotherian stubs