| Lentiarenium | |
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| A skull of Lentiarenium christolli | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Sirenia |
| Family: | Dugongidae |
| Genus: | †Lentiarenium Voss, Berning, and Reiter, 2016 |
| Species: | †L. christolli |
| Binomial name | |
| †Lentiarenium christolli Fitzinger, 1842 | |
Lentiarenium is an extinct genus of early dugongid sea cow from the late Oligocene (Chattian) of Austria.
Classification[]
It was originally classified as a species of Halitherium, H. christolli, but was eventually recognized as generically distinct from the dugongid remains assigned to H. schinzii, and renamed Lentiarenium in 2016.