Culebratherium
Extinct genus of mammal
Culebratherium Temporal range: Burdigalian ~19 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Sirenia |
Family: | Dugongidae |
Subfamily: | Dugonginae |
Genus: | †Culebratherium Vélez Juarbe & Wood 2019 |
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Culebratherium is an extinct genus of dugongid sirenian mammal which existed in what is now Panama during the Early Miocene. It takes its name from the upper member of the Culebra Formation of the Panama Canal Zone, in which the holotype fossil was found.[1]
References
- ^ Vélez Juarbe & Wood, 2019
Bibliography
- Vélez Juarbe, Jorge; Wood, Aaron R. (2019), "An early Miocene dugongine (Sirenia: Dugongidae) from Panama", Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, e1511799 (5): Online edition, doi:10.1080/02724634.2018.1511799, retrieved 2019-02-22
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Sirenian genera
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Superorder: Afrotheria
- Clade: Paenungulata
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†Protosirenidae |
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Trichechidae |
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Dugongidae |
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