An Oligocene (Orellan) Sirenian Fron the Bucatunna Formation of Alabama
Authors
Kenneth Whetstone
Larry D. Martin
Department of Systematics and Museum of Natural History
University of Kansas
Abstract
Tertiary sirenians from the New World have been recently reviewed by Reinhart (1976) and Savage (1976). The earliest New World sirenians are known from the presence of pachyostose ribs in Eocene strata of the southeastern United States and from an Eocene skull and mandible from Jamaica.
