Protosirenidae

Protosirenidae is an extinct primitive family of the order Sirenia.

Protosirenidae

Conty · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SireniaPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Sirenia
Life habit
aquaticPBDB, for Sirenia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
marinePBDB, for Sirenia

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 31 occurrencesEocene — about 31 of 31 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 31 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences50–50 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 1 occurrence47–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence46–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence46–45 Mya — about 1 occurrence45–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–42 Mya — about 1 occurrence42–41 Mya — about 1 occurrence41–40 Mya — about 3 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 3 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 3 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 3 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 1 occurrence36–36 Mya — about 1 occurrence36–35 Mya — about 1 occurrence35–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–33 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences48.07 Mya37.71 Mya56.5 Mya33.4 Mya

31 occurrences of Protosirenidae on record, most of them in the Eocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

31 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

17 formations

Tupelo Bay — 33.35°N, 80.26°WTupelo Bay — 33.33°N, 79.67°WTupelo Bay — 33.21°N, 80.45°WDrazinda — 30.78°N, 70.46°EDrazinda — 30.90°N, 70.23°EHarudi — 23.51°N, 68.69°EHarudi — 23.48°N, 68.75°EAvon Park — 29.25°N, 82.73°WAvon Park — 29.01°N, 82.65°WInglis — 28.91°N, 82.39°WInglis — 28.99°N, 82.35°WCastle Hayne — 34.36°N, 77.87°WCastle Hayne — 35.01°N, 77.57°WBirket Qarun — 29.30°N, 30.06°ESamlat — 23.30°N, 16.06°WSamlat — 23.36°N, 16.03°WHabib Rahi — 30.09°N, 69.79°EGehannam — 29.30°N, 30.05°EWadi Thamit — 28.25°N, 18.50°EWadi Esh-Shallala — 30.85°N, 35.85°EMokattam — 30.36°N, 31.27°EWadi Rayyan — 29.24°N, 30.45°EMidawara — 29.15°N, 30.04°EFürstenau — 52.59°N, 7.22°EGhat — 28.14°N, 67.17°E

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The named rock units Protosirenidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Protosirenidae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Protosirenidae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

255 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Protosirenidae, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

23 references

Each of the 31 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 11 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Protosirenidae

Credit
Conty
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Protosirenidae was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itSirenia through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sickenberg 1934)