Corystosiren
Extinct genus of mammal
Corystosiren Temporal range: early Pliocene | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Sirenia |
Family: | Dugongidae |
Subfamily: | Dugonginae |
Genus: | †Corystosiren Domning, 1990 |
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Corystosiren is an extinct genus of dugongid sirenian mammal which existed in the waters of the Caribbean Basin during the early Pliocene. Fossils have been found in the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico, and Florida.[1]
References
- ^ D. P. Domning. 1990. Fossil Sirenia of the West Atlantic and Caribbean Region, IV. Corystosiren varguezi, gen. et sp. nov. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 10(3):361-371
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Sirenian genera
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Superorder: Afrotheria
- Clade: Paenungulata
Sirenia
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†Protosirenidae |
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Trichechidae |
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Dugongidae |
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