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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.

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.

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