Sobrarbesiren cardieli Díaz-Berenguer et al. 2018 (sirenian)

Mammalia - Sirenia

Full reference: E. Díaz-Berenguer, A. Badiola, M. Moreno-Azanza and J. Ignacio Canudo. 2018. First adequately-known quadrupedal sirenian from Eurasia (Eocene, Bay of Biscay, Huesca, northeastern Spain). Nature Scientific Reports 8(5127):1-13

Belongs to Sobrarbesiren according to E. Díaz-Berenguer et al. 2018

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MPZ 2017/1, a skull (complete skull of a subadult individual which preserves alveoli of P1-4, a complete le P5, and M1-3 on both sides). Its type locality is Castejón de Sobrarbe, which is in a Lutetian deltaic mudstone in the Sobrarbe Formation of Spain.

Ecology: aquatic herbivore

Distribution: found only at Castejón de Sobrarbe

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