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Stegosiren macei
Taxonomy
Stegosiren macei was named by Domning and Beatty (2019). Its type specimen is CCNHM 201, a partial skeleton (partial skull and skeleton), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Shadowmoss Golf Course Back 9, which is in a Rupelian coastal sandstone in the Ashley Formation of South Carolina. It is the type species of Stegosiren.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2019 | Stegosiren macei Domning and Beatty p. 2 figs. Figs. 2–8; Tabs. 1–3 |
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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.
†Stegosiren macei Domning and Beatty 2019
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| D. P. Domning and B. L. Beatty 2019 | ‘Halitheriine’ dugongid distinguished from all other sirenians by the following autapomorphies: great breadth of overhanging frontal roof relative to parietal roof; and dorso- ventrally thickened anterior tip of frontal, forming a butt joint with lateral part of nasal process of premaxilla. |
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Domning 1979, Nowak 1991 | |||||