†Potamosiren Reinhart 1951 (manatee)
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Mammalia - Sirenia - Trichechidae
Full reference: R. H. Reinhart. 1951. A new genus of sea cow from the Miocene of Colombia. University of California Publications Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences 28(9):203-214
Parent taxon: Trichechinae according to D. P. Domning 1996
See also Berta 2017, Carroll 1988, Cozzuol 1996, Domning 1982, Domning 1994, Domning 2018, Sepkoski 2002, Suarez et al. 2021 and Voss 2014
Sister taxa: Ribodon, Trichechina, Trichechus
Subtaxa: Potamosiren magdalenensis
Ecology: aquatic herbivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Colombia (8 collections), Venezuela (1)
Total: 9 collections each including a single occurrence
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