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Short description: Extinct genus of dugongid sirenian

Crenatosiren
Temporal range: Late Oligocene
Crenatosiren olseni.jpg
Scientific classification
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Sirenia
Family: Dugongidae
Genus: Crenatosiren
Domning, 1991
Species:
C. olseni
Binomial name
Crenatosiren olseni
(Olsen, 1976)

Crenatosiren is an extinct genus of dugongid sirenian known from the late Oligocene (Chattian) of Florida, North Carolina, and South Carolina. The type and only known species is Crenatosiren olseni.[1]

Taxonomy

Crenatosiren was originally named "Halitherium" olseni by Rinehart (1976), who described the species from marine deposits of the late Oligocene (Arikareean NALMA) Parachucla Formation in the Suwannee River in Hamilton County, Florida. Domning (1991) eventually recognized the taxon as more derived than the Halitherium type species and assigned it to the new genus Crenatosiren, classifying it as a relative of the dugongid Rytiodus.[2][3] The genus name is derived from the Latin words crenatus (meaning 'notched') and siren.[3] More specimens of C. olseni were later found in the Ashley and Chandler Bridge formations of South Carolina.[1]

References

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