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Callistosiren boriquensis

Mammalia - Sirenia - Dugongidae

Taxonomy
Callistosiren boriquensis was named by Velez-Juarbe and Domning (2015). Its type specimen is USNM 540765, a skull (virtually complete adult skull, including the periotic, malleus, incus, and stapes from the left side), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Quebrada Collazo, which is in a Chattian marine limestone in the Lares Limestone Formation of Puerto Rico. It is the type species of Callistosiren.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2015Callistosiren boriquensis Velez-Juarbe and Domning p. 2 figs. Figs. 1-10

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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
subfamilyDugonginae
genusCallistosiren
speciesboriquensis

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.

†Callistosiren boriquensis Velez-Juarbe and Domning 2015
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available