Hydrodamalinae

Hydrodamalinae Temporal range: 15.97–0 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N Middle Miocene to Holocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Sirenia
Family:	Dugongidae
Subfamily:	Hydrodamalinae Palmer 1895
Genera[1]
†Dusisiren Domning 1978 †Hydrodamalis Retzius 1794
Synonyms
Hydrodamalidae

Hydrodamalinae is a recently extinct subfamily of the sirenian family Dugongidae. The Steller's sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas) was hunted to extinction by 1760, while the genus Dusisiren is known from fossils dating from the middle Miocene to early Pliocene.^[1]

References

Notes

1. "Hydrodamalinae". Fossilworks. Retrieved January 2014.

Sources

• Domning, D. P. (1978). "Sirenian evolution in the North Pacific Ocean". University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 118: 1–176. OCLC 4919036. Lay summary (January 2014).
• Palmer, T. S. (1895). "The Earliest Name for Steller's Sea Cow and Dugong". Science 2 (40): 449–450. doi:10.1126/science.2.40.449-a. Retrieved January 2014. Lay summary (January 2014).(PDF)
• Retzius, A. J. (1794). "Anmärkningar vid genus Trichechi". Kungl. Sve. Vetenskapsakad. Nya Handl 15: 286–300. Retrieved January 2014. Lay summary (January 2014).