Sobrarbesiren

Sobrarbesiren (meaning "siren from Sobrarbe") is a genus of extinct sirenian that lived in the Eocene, about 47 million years ago. The type and only species is S. cardieli, known from skull and post-cranial elements of a subadult individual.[1]

Sobrarbesiren
Temporal range:
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Sirenia
Family: incertae sedis
Genus: Sobrarbesiren
Species:
S. cardieli
Binomial name
Sobrarbesiren cardieli
Díaz-Berenguer, 2018

References

  1. Díaz-Berenguer, Ester; Badiola, Ainara; Moreno-Azanza, Miguel; Canudo, José Ignacio (March 23, 2018). "First adequately-known quadrupedal sirenian from Eurasia (Eocene, Bay of Biscay, Huesca, northeastern Spain)". Scientific Reports. 8 (1): 5127. doi:10.1038/s41598-018-23355-w via www.nature.com.


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