Italosiren

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Italosiren
Temporal range:
Ma
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Sirenia
Family: Dugongidae
Subfamily:
Dugonginae
Genus: †Italosiren
Voss, Sorbi, and Domning, 2017
Species
  • I. bellunensis (de Zigno, 1875) (type)

Italosiren is an extinct genus of early dugong from the Early Miocene (Aquitanian) Libano Formation in northern Italy.

Classification

It was originally classified as a species of Halitherium, H. bellunense, but was eventually recognized as closer to the dugong than to Halitherium schinzii, necessitating erection of the new generic name Italosiren.[1][2][3][4]

See also

References

  1. ^ De Zigno, A. 1875. Sirenii fossil itrovati nel Veneto. Memorie del Reale Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettre ed Arti 18: 427–456.
  2. doi:10.1080/02724634.1989.10011774
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  3. doi:10.5479/si.00810266.80.1
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  4. doi:10.4202/app.00287.2016
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