Culebratherium

Extinct genus of mammal

Culebratherium
Temporal range: Burdigalian
~19 Ma
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Sirenia
Family: Dugongidae
Subfamily: Dugonginae
Genus: Culebratherium
Vélez Juarbe & Wood 2019
Species
  • C. alemani Vélez Juarbe & Wood 2019 (type)

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

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  1. ^ 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
Prorastomidae
Protosirenidae
Trichechidae
Miosireninae
Trichechinae
Dugongidae
Hydrodamalinae
Dugonginae
Dusisiren jordani
Taxon identifiers
Culebratherium


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