Dusisiren

Dusisiren
Temporal range: Middle Miocene to Pliocene,
Skeletons of adult and juvenile D. jordani at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Life restoration of D. jordani
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Sirenia
Family: Dugongidae
Subfamily: †Hydrodamalinae
Genus: †Dusisiren
Type species
Dusisiren jordani
Kellogg, 1925
Species
  • D. dewana Takahashi, Domning, and Saito, 1986
  • D. jordani (Kellogg, 1925) (type)
  • D. reinharti Domning, 1978
  • D. takasatensis Kobayashi, Horikawa, & Miyazaki, 1995

Dusisiren is an extinct genus of dugong related to the Steller's sea cow that lived in the North Pacific during the Neogene.

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