Caribosiren

Caribosiren
Temporal range: Late Oligocene
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Sirenia
Family: Dugongidae
Genus: †Caribosiren
Reinhart, 1959
Species
  • C. turneri Reinhart, 1959 (type)

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

  1. ^ Reinhart, R. H. (1959). "A review of the Sirenia and Desmostylia". Systematic Zoology. 25 (4): 344–351. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.820.5979.


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