Family Rhytinidae Gill 1872 (sirenian)
Mammalia - Sirenia - Rhytinidae
Full reference: T. Gill. 1872. Arrangement of the Families of Mammals. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 11(230):1-98
Parent taxon: Sirenia according to W. Turner 1912
See also Cope 1889, Cope 1890, Flower and Lydekker 1891, Gill 1872, Hay 1902, Jaekel 1911, Lydekker 1887 and Weber 1928
Sister taxa: Crassitherium, Dugongidae, Dugongoidea, Manatherium, Manatus inornatus, Prorastomidae, Prorastomoidea, Protosirenidae, Pugmeodon, Sirenotherium, Sirenotherium pirabense, Sobrarbesiren, Trichechidae
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: aquatic herbivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Rhytinidae in the database