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Dusisiren dewana

Mammalia - Sirenia - Dugongidae

Taxonomy
Dusisiren dewana was named by Takahashi et al. (1986) [Yamagata Prefectural Museum, no number listed]. Its type specimen is no number, a skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Yoh Iron Bridge, which is in a Tortonian marine sandstone in the Hongo Formation of Japan.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1986Dusisiren dewana Takahashi et al. p. 300 figs. Plates 53-61
1994Dusisiren dewana Domning p. 189
1994Dusisiren dewana Furusawa and Kohno p. 29 figs. Table 1
1995Dusisiren dewana Domning and Furusawa p. 508
1996Dusisiren dewana Domning p. 389
2005Dusisiren dewana Furusawa p. 31
2008Dusisiren dewana Domning
2014Dusisiren dewana 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
speciesdewana

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 dewana Takahashi et al. 1986
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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: Domning 1978, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Nowak 1991

Age range: base of the Tortonian to the top of the Early/Lower Pliocene or 11.62000 to 3.60000 Ma

Collections (5 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Tortonian11.62 - 7.246Japan (Yamagata) Dusisiren dewana (type locality: 71537)
Tortonian11.62 - 7.246USA (California) Dusisiren dewana (225301) Dusisiren sp. D (52216)
Messinian7.246 - 5.333USA (California) Odobenidae indet. (52217)
Early/Lower Pliocene5.333 - 3.6USA (California) Dusisiren sp. D (52215)