Culebratherium is an extinct genus of dugongid sirenian mammal which existed in what is now Panama during the Early Miocene. It takes its name from the upper member of the Culebra Formation of the Panama Canal Zone, in which the holotype fossil was found.[1]

Culebratherium
Temporal range: Burdigalian
~19 Ma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Sirenia
Family: Dugongidae
Subfamily: Dugonginae
Genus: Culebratherium
Vélez Juarbe & Wood 2019
Species
  • C. alemani Vélez Juarbe & Wood 2019 (type)

References edit

  1. ^ Vélez Juarbe & Wood, 2019

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