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    appearance of sirenians in the fossil record was during the early Eocene, and by the late Eocene, sirenians had significantly diversified. Inhabitants of rivers...
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    Sirenia (redirect from Sirenians)
    with a total of four species. The Protosirenidae (Eocene sirenians) and Prorastomidae (terrestrial sirenians) families are extinct. Sirenians are classified...
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    Steller's sea cow (category Pleistocene sirenians)
    anterior border of the scapula was nearly straight, whereas those of modern sirenians are curved. Like other sirenians, the bones of Steller's sea cow...
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    Domning, D.P., 1994, "Paleontology and evolution of sirenians: Status of knowledge and research needs", in Proceedings of the 1st International Manatee and...
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    biology portal Paleontology portal Aquatic adaptation Evolution of mammals Evolution of sirenians List of extinct cetaceans Transitional form Thewissen, J...
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    descriptions of redirect targets Timeline of human evolution Evolution of lemurs – History of primate evolution on Madagascar Evolution of sirenians – Development...
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  • Protosirenidae (category Eocene sirenians)
    Dugongidae Evolution of sirenians Manatee D. P. Domning, G. J. Heal, and S. Sorbi. 2017. Libysiren sickenbergi, gen. et sp. nov.: a new sirenian (Mammalia...
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    release of mercury in mining activities threatens the entire aquatic ecosystem of the Amazon Basin. Unihemispheric slow-wave sleep Evolution of sirenians Shoshani...
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    Pezosiren (category Eocene sirenians)
    portal Evolution of sirenians Prorastomus Díaz-Berenguer E, Badiola A, Moreno-Azanza M & Canudo J.I., 2018, "First adequately-known quadrupedal sirenian from...
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    Prorastomus (category Eocene sirenians)
    indicating it had a good sense of smell. The frontal bones are smaller than usual for sirenians, though, as in other sirenians, it had a pronounced brow ridge...
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    sirenians, 133 parallel amino acid substitutions occur. Comparing and contrasting cetaceans-pinnipeds, cetaceans-sirenians, and pinnipeds-sirenians,...
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    Miosiren (category Miocene sirenians)
    of extinct sirenians recovered Miosiren as a close relative of Anomotherium in a separate subfamily within Trichechidae, Miosireninae. Evolution of sirenians...
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    Prorastomidae (category Eocene sirenians)
    discovered in modern-day Jamaica. One of the earliest true Sirenian species, P. portelli is distinct from extant Sirenians due to its quadrupedal stature. The...
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    502 lb). The sirenians are another group of marine mammals which adapted to fully aquatic life around the same time as the cetaceans did. Sirenians are closely...
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  • Pole despite similar weather conditions at the North Pole. Families of sirenians are distributed around the earth's waters, where manatees are located...
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    mammals that live in freshwater. For a list of saltwater mammals, see Marine mammal. Order Sirenia: sirenians Family Trichechidae: manatees Amazonian manatee...
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    Sloth (redirect from Evolution of sloths)
    similar to the extant sirenians. Both types of extant tree sloth tend to occupy the same forests; in most areas, a particular species of the somewhat smaller...
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    pinnipeds, the limbs have been modified into flippers. Unlike cetaceans and sirenians, which have fully functional tails to help them swim, pinnipeds use their...
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    Trichechidae (category Sirenians)
    Trichechidae is a family of sirenians that includes all living manatees and several extinct genera. Trichechidae †Miosireninae †Anomotherium †Anomotherium...
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    Hyrax (category Fauna of Sub-Saharan Africa)
    the giant "hyracoids" (common ancestors to the hyraxes, elephants, and sirenians) evolved in different ways. Some became smaller, and evolved to become...
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  • mainly fossils. In biology, evolution is any change across successive generations in the heritable characteristics of biological populations. Evolutionary...
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  • Potamosiren (category Miocene sirenians)
    relative of modern manatees. Colombia portal Paleontology portal Evolution of sirenians Potamosiren at Fossilworks.org M. Voss. 2014. On the invalidity of Halitherium...
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  • Anomotherium (category Oligocene sirenians)
    mollusks on the shallow seabead. Evolution of sirenians "Fossilworks: Anomotherium". Voss, M. (2014). "On the invalidity of Halitherium schinzii Kaup, 1838...
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  • knowledge of the evolution of the brain in sirenians, is published by Kerber & Moraes–Santos (2021). A study on the population history of the Steller's sea...
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    sirenians, 133 parallel amino acid substitutions occur. Comparing and contrasting cetaceans-pinnipeds, cetaceans-sirenians, and pinnipeds-sirenians,...
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  • Protosiren (category Eocene sirenians)
    extant sirenians (manatee and dugong), Protosiren is thought to have fed on sea grasses as well as freshwater plants. Unlike extant sirenians, Protosiren...
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    Metaxytherium (category Oligocene sirenians)
    "Endocranial Morphology of a Middle Miocene South American Dugongid and the Neurosensorial Evolution of Sirenians". Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 28 (3): 661–678...
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    Sunil Bajpai (category Fellows of the Indian Academy of Sciences)
    whale evolution, and Daryl Domning from Howard University, Washington D.C., specialist of fossil sirenians have been the main collaborators of Bajpai...
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    Dusisiren (category Miocene sirenians)
    1995 Evolution of sirenians Hydrodamalis "Fossilworks: Dusisiren". D. P. Domning. 1978. Sirenian evolution in the North Pacific Ocean. University of California...
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    Bone (redirect from Trabeculae of bone)
    2010). "Evolution of Sirenian Pachyosteosclerosis, a Model-case for the Study of Bone Structure in Aquatic Tetrapods". Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 17...
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