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Eosiren
Temporal range: Late Eocene-Oligocene
Skull of E. libyca .
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Eosiren
Andrews , 1902
Species
E. abeli
E. imenti
E. libyca
E. stromeri
Drawing of skeleton. E. libyca and an extant manatee by Charles R. Knight , 1907Size of Eosiren (purple) compared to other Eocene sirenians and a human.
Eosiren sea cow that lived during the Late Eocene (later Priabonian ) to Early Oligocene (Rupelian ).[1] Egypt . It seems like the species E. abeli were contemporaneous with Protosiren and Eotheroides .[1] 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 mandible .[2] Science zoopaleontology .[3]
References [ edit ]
^ Andrews, C. W. (1902). "II.—Preliminary Note on some Recently Discovered Extinct Vertebrates from Egypt. (Part III.)" . Geological Magazine . 9 7 ): 291–295. Bibcode :1902GeoM....9..291A . doi :10.1017/S0016756800181178 . S2CID 248538038 .
^ Osborn, H. F. (31 October 1902). "Recent Zoopaleontology" . Science . 16 Bibcode :1902Sci....16..749O . doi :10.1126/science.16.410.749 . JSTOR 1628916 . PMID 17776565 . Retrieved 27 January 2021 .
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