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Dusisiren jordani

Mammalia - Sirenia - Dugongidae

Taxonomy
Metaxytherium jordani was named by Kellogg (1925). Its type specimen is USNM 11051, a partial skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Lompoc Quarry, which is in a Tortonian basinal (siliciclastic) diatomite in the Monterey Formation of California.

It was recombined as Halianassa jordani by Reinhart (1951); it was recombined as Dusisiren jordani by Domning (1978), Domning (1994), Furusawa and Kohno (1994), Domning (1996), Furusawa (2005), Domning (2008), Boessenecker (2011) and Voss (2014).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1925Metaxytherium jordani Kellogg p. 59
1930Metaxytherium jordani Hay p. 656
1951Halianassa jordani Reinhart p. 210
1959Halianassa vanderhoofi Reinhart p. 23 figs. Plates 1-3; figs. 4-6
1970Metaxytherium vanderhoofi Shikama and Domning p. 395
1974Metaxytherium jordani Fondi and Pacini p. 45
1974Metaxytherium vanderhoofi Fondi and Pacini p. 45
1978Dusisiren jordani Domning p. 118
1994Dusisiren jordani Domning p. 189 figs. Figure 3
1994Dusisiren jordani Furusawa and Kohno p. 29 figs. Table 1
1996Dusisiren jordani Domning p. 389
2005Dusisiren jordani Furusawa p. 31
2008Dusisiren jordani Domning
2011Dusisiren jordani Boessenecker p. 2
2014Dusisiren jordani Voss p. 91 figs. Figure 3

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
RankNameAuthor
Mammaliamorpha
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
AfrotheriaStanhope et al. 1998
Tethytheria
orderSirenia()
familyDugongidae
subfamilyHydrodamalinae()
genusDusisiren
speciesjordani()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Dusisiren jordani Kellogg 1925
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Invalid names: Halianassa vanderhoofi Reinhart 1959 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: marinef
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: aquaticf
Diet: herbivoref
Reproduction: viviparousf
Created: 2005-06-08 10:11:09
Modified: 2005-06-08 12:11:09
Source: f = family, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Nowak 1991, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Domning 1978

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Miocene to the top of the Messinian or 11.60800 to 5.33300 Ma

Collections (11 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Tortonian11.62 - 7.246USA (California) Dusisiren jordani (13300 52184 52185 52201 52213 225312) Halianassa vanderhoofi (40514) Metaxytherium jordani (type locality: 45489) Metaxytherium sp. (46070)
Late/Upper Miocene - Early/Lower Pliocene11.608 - 3.6USA (California) Dusisiren jordani (52214)
Messinian7.246 - 5.333USA (California) Dusisiren jordani (45499)