Caribosiren
Appearance
Caribosiren Temporal range: Late Oligocene
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Sirenia |
Family: | Dugongidae |
Genus: | †Caribosiren Reinhart, 1959 |
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Caribosiren is an extinct genus of mammal which existed in what is now Puerto Rico during the late Oligocene (Chattian). Fossils have been recovered from the San Sebastián Limestone.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Reinhart, R. H. (1959). "A review of the Sirenia and Desmostylia". Systematic Zoology. 25 (4): 344–351. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.820.5979.