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]
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Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Sirenia |
Family: | incertae sedis |
Genus: | †Sobrarbesiren |
Species: | †S. cardieli |
Binomial name | |
†Sobrarbesiren cardieli Díaz-Berenguer, 2018 | |
References
- 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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