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Hydrodamalinae

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Hydrodamalinae
Temporal range: 15.97–0.000256 Ma Middle Miocene to Holocene
Model of steller's sea cow
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Sirenia
Family: Dugongidae
Subfamily: Hydrodamalinae
Palmer 1895
Genera
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]

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Notes

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  1. ^ a b "Hydrodamalinae". Fossilworks. Archived from the original on 29 September 2020. Retrieved 17 December 2021.

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