Kaupitherium bronni Krauss 1858 (dugong)

Mammalia - Sirenia - Dugongidae

Alternative combination: Halitherium bronni

Full reference: C. F. F. Krauss. 1858. Beitrage zur Kenntnis des schadel-baues von Halitherium. Neues Jahrbuch fur Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefaktenkunde 1858:519-531

Belongs to Kaupitherium according to M. Voss and O. Hampe 2017

See also Domning 1996 and Krauss 1858

Sister taxon: Kaupitherium gruelli

Type specimen: SMNS 1539, a skull (skull roof). Its type locality is Flonheim, which is in a Rupelian marine horizon in the Alzey Formation of Germany.

Ecology: aquatic herbivore

Distribution:

• Oligocene of Germany (2 collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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