Mammalia - Sirenia - Dugongidae

PaleoDB taxon number: 64984

Full reference: O. Sickenberg. 1934. Beitrage zur Kenntnis Tertiarer Sirenen. Memoires de Musee Royal D'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique 63:1-352

Belongs to Eosiren according to M. Voss 2014

Sister taxa: Eosiren imenti, Eosiren libyca, Eosiren stromeri

Type specimen: BSP 1903 II 21, a tooth. Its type locality is Gebel Mokattam, lower, which is in a Lutetian open shallow subtidal limestone in the Mokattam Formation of Egypt.

Ecology: scansorial insectivore