Hydrodamalinae
Sign in to saveHydrodamalinae is a recently extinct subfamily of the sirenian family Dugongidae. The Steller's sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas) was hunted to extinction by 1768, while the genus Dusisiren is known from fossils dating from the middle Miocene to early Pliocene.
Species
Subfamily
- PhylumChordata
- ClassMammalia
- OrderSirenia
- FamilyDugongidae
Habitatmarine
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- Parent taxon
- Dugongidae
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- taxon name
- Hydrodamalinae
- taxon rank
- subfamily
- start time
- 15970000-0
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Hydrodamalinae is a recently extinct subfamily of the sirenian family Dugongidae. The Steller's sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas) was hunted to extinction by 1768, while the genus Dusisiren is known from fossils dating from the middle Miocene to early Pliocene.
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hydrodamalinae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.