Miosiren canhami Flower 1874 (manatee)

Mammalia - Sirenia - Trichechidae

Alternative combination: Halitherium canhami

Full reference: W. H. Flower. 1874. Description of the skull of a species of Halitherium (H. canhami) from the Red Crag of Suffolk. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 30:1-7

Belongs to Miosiren according to D. P. Domning 1996

See also Lydekker 1887, Newton 1891, Trouessart 1904 and Woodward 1885

Sister taxon: Miosiren kocki

Type specimen: Its type locality is Felixstow (reworked), which is in a Miocene coastal horizon in the United Kingdom

Ecology: aquatic herbivore

Distribution: found only at Felixstow (reworked)

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