Culebratherium Velez-Juarbe and Wood 2018 (dugong)

Mammalia - Sirenia - Dugongidae

Full reference: J. Velez-Juarbe and A. Wood. 2018. An early Miocene dugongine (Sirenia: Dugongidae) from Panama. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 38(5):e1511799

Parent taxon: Dugonginae according to J. Velez-Juarbe and A. Wood 2018

Sister taxa: Bharatisiren, Callistosiren, Corystosiren, Crenatosiren, Dioplotherium, Domningia, Dugong, Italosiren, Kutchisiren, Norosiren, Rytiodus, Xenosiren

Subtaxa: Culebratherium alemani

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Type: Culebratherium alemani

Ecology: aquatic herbivore

Distribution: found only at Gaillard Cut, Culebra Formation (Miocene to Miocene of Panama)

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