Miosiren
Appearance
Miosiren Temporal range:
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Miosiren kocki skeleton | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Sirenia |
Family: | Trichechidae |
Subfamily: | †Miosireninae |
Genus: | †Miosiren Dollo, 1889 |
Species | |
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Miosiren is an extinct genus of manatee from the Early Miocene of southeastern England (Suffolk) and Antwerp, Belgium.[1]
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Two species are recognized, M. canhami and M. kocki.
Phylogeny
[edit]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
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Fossilworks: Miosiren".
- ^ 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