Biology:Eosiren
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Short description: Extinct genus of mammals
| Eosiren Temporal range: Late Eocene-Oligocene
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| Subfamily: | †Halitheriinae
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| Genus: | Eosiren Andrews, 1902
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Eosiren is an extinct genus of sea cow that lived during the Late Eocene (later Priabonian) to Early Oligocene (Rupelian).[1] Several fossils have been found in Egypt. It seems like the species E. abeli were contemporaneous with Protosiren and Eotheroides.[1] like them, Eosiren closely resembled modern sirenians. It differs from them by having somewhat larger innominates and possess thigh bones.[1]
Eosiren was first described by vertebrage paleontologist Charles William Andrews in 1902, who distinguished it from the genus Halitherium due to differences in the teeth and mandible.[2] Later that year, Science published a summary of his findings in a collection on advances in zoopaleontology.[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Zalmout I.S. & Gingerich P.D. (2012), “Late Eocene sea cows (Mammalia, Sirenia) from Wadi al Hitan in the western desert of Fayum, Egypt”, University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology No. 37
- ↑ Andrews, C. W. (1902). "II.—Preliminary Note on some Recently Discovered Extinct Vertebrates from Egypt. (Part III.)". Geological Magazine 9 (7): 291–295. doi:10.1017/S0016756800181178. Bibcode: 1902GeoM....9..291A. https://zenodo.org/record/2189683.
- ↑ Osborn, H. F. (31 October 1902). "Recent Zoopaleontology". Science 16 (409): 749–752. doi:10.1126/science.16.410.749. PMID 17776565. Bibcode: 1902Sci....16..749O. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1628916. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
Wikidata ☰ Q3726742 entry
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