Miosiren

Miosiren
Temporal range: Early Miocene
Miosiren kocki skeleton
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Sirenia
Family: Trichechidae
Subfamily: †Miosireninae
Genus: †Miosiren
Dollo, 1889
Species
  • Miosiren canhami (Flower, 1874)
  • Miosiren kocki Dollo, 1889 (type)

Miosiren is an extinct genus of manatee from the Early Miocene of southeastern England (Suffolk) and Antwerp, Belgium.

M. canhami fossils

Two species are recognized, M. canhami and M. kocki.

Phylogeny

A 2014 cladistic analysis of extinct sirenians recovered Miosiren as a close relative of Anomotherium in a separate subfamily within Trichechidae, Miosireninae.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Fossilworks: Miosiren".
  2. ↑ M. Voss. 2014. On the invalidity of Halitherium schinzii Kaup, 1838 (Mammalia, Sirenia), with comments on systematic consequences. Zoosystematics and Evolution 90(1):87-93