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Potamosiren

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Potamosiren is an extinct genus of manatee from the Middle Miocene (Laventan) Honda Group of Colombia.

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It sits within the topics Fossils of Colombia, Fossil taxa described in 1951 and Honda Group, Colombia.

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taxon name
Potamosiren
start time
13800000-0
end time
11800000-0
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Potamosiren is an extinct genus of manatee from the Middle Miocene (Laventan) Honda Group of Colombia.

== Phylogeny == A 2014 cladistic analysis of extinct sirenians recovers Potamosiren as a close relative of modern manatees.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Potamosiren” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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