Caribosiren

Caribosiren is an extinct genus of afrotherian mammal which existed in what is now Puerto Rico during the Chattian stage of the Oligocene epoch. Fossils have been recovered from the San Sebastián Limestone.^[1]

Caribosiren Temporal range: Late Oligocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Sirenia
Family:	Dugongidae
Genus:	†Caribosiren Reinhart, 1959
Species
C. turneri Reinhart, 1959 (type)

Palaeobiology

Palaeoecology

Caribosiren, as suggested by its lack of tusks and its extreme snout deflection of 75°, was a dietary specialist that ate seagrass leaves and small rhizomes.^[2]