Protosirenidae is an extinct primitive family of the order Sirenia.[1][2]
Protosirenidae Temporal range:
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The skeleton of Protosiren | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Sirenia |
Family: | †Protosirenidae Sickenberg, 1934 |
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Protosirenids are thought to have been amphibious quadrupeds, meaning that they spent their time both on land and in the water and had four legs.[3]
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edit- ^ D. P. Domning, G. J. Heal, and S. Sorbi. 2017. Libysiren sickenbergi, gen. et sp. nov.: a new sirenian (Mammalia, Protosirenidae) from the middle Eocene of Libya. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 37(2):e1299158
- ^ "Fossilworks: Protosirenidae".
- ^ Berta, Annalisa; Sumich, James; Kovacs, Kit (2005). Sirenian and Other Marine Mammals: Evolution and Systematics (PDF) (2nd ed.). Elsevier Science. pp. 89–110. ISBN 9780120885527. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
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