Dioplotherium

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Dioplotherium
Temporal range: Miocene
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Dioplotherium manigaulti
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Sirenia
Family: Dugongidae
Subfamily: Dugonginae
Genus: Dioplotherium
Cope, 1883
Species
  • D. allisoniKilmer, 1965
  • D. manigaulti Cope, 1883 (type)

Dioplotherium is an extinct genus of mammal known from Neogene deposits in the Southeastern United States. [1]

Species

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References

  1. E. D. Cope. 1883. On a new extinct genus of Sirenia, from South Carolina. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia1883:52-54
  2. F. H. Kilmer. 1965. A Miocene dugongid from Baja California, Mexico. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences65(2):57-74.
  3. 1 2 Domning, Daryl P. 1989. Fossil Sirenia of the West Atlantic and Caribbean Region. II. Dioplotherium manigaulti Cope, 1883. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology9(4):415-428. JSTOR   4523282
  4. D. P. Domning. 1996. Bibliography and Index of the Sirenia and Desmostylia. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology80:1-611 doi : 10.5479/si.00810266.80.1