Prototherium
Extinct genus of mammals
Prototherium Temporal range: Middle Eocene–Late Eocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N | |
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Mounted P. veronense skeleton | |
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Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Sirenia |
Family: | Dugongidae |
Subfamily: | †Halitheriinae |
Genus: | Prototherium de Zigno, 1887 |
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Prototherium is a genus of extinct sirenian related to the dugong. It is known from middle (Bartonian) and upper Eocene deposits in Italy and Spain. Type species is P. veronenses (Zigno, 1887[1])
Three species are now included in the genus, but their phylogenetic relations are not resolved and possibly one of them Prototherium intermedium Bizzotto 1983[2] must be excluded. In the same way, relations between Prototherium and other genus are confused and need revision. A third species was described in Spain in 2016, P.ausetanum[3].
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References
- ^ (de) Zigno, Achille. "Quelques observations sur les siréniens fossiles". Bull.Soc. Geol. France. 15: 728–732.
- ^ Bizzotto, Bruno. "Prototherium intermedium n. sp. (Sirenia) dell'EoceneSuperiore di Possagno e proposta di revisione sistematica del taxon Eotheroides Palmer, 1899". Mem. Ist. Geol. Mineral. Univ. Padova. 36: 95–116.
- ^ Balaguer, J. & Alba, D. (2016). "A new dugong species (Sirenia, Dugongidae) from the Eocene of Catalonia (NE Iberian Peninsula)". Comptes Rendus Palevol. 15 (5): 489–500. Bibcode:2016CRPal..15..489B. doi:10.1016/j.crpv.2015.10.002.
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Sirenian genera
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Superorder: Afrotheria
- Clade: Paenungulata
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Trichechidae |
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Dugongidae |
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