Corystosiren

Extinct genus of mammal

Corystosiren
Temporal range: early Pliocene
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Sirenia
Family: Dugongidae
Subfamily: Dugonginae
Genus: Corystosiren
Domning, 1990
Species
  • C. varguezi Domning, 1990 (type)

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

  1. ^ 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
Prorastomidae
Protosirenidae
Trichechidae
Miosireninae
Trichechinae
Dugongidae
Hydrodamalinae
Dugonginae
Dusisiren jordani
Taxon identifiers
Corystosiren


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