Pugmeodon Kaup 1838

Mammalia - Sirenia

Alternative spelling: Pygmaeodon

Full reference: J. J. Kaup. 1838. [Über Zähne von Halytherium und Pugmeodon aus dem Maynzer Becken]. Neues Jahrbuch fur Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefaktenkunde 1838:319

Parent taxon: Sirenia according to D. P. Domning 1978

See also Bronn 1853, Domning 1996, Gill 1872, Lydekker 1887, Palmer 1904, Pictet 1853 and Trouessart 1898

Sister taxa: Crassitherium, Dugongidae, Dugongoidea, Manatherium, Manatus inornatus, Prorastomidae, Prorastomoidea, Protosirenidae, Rhytinidae, Sirenotherium, Sirenotherium pirabense, Sobrarbesiren, Trichechidae

Subtaxa: none

Type: Pugmeodon schinzii

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Pugmeodon in the database

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