Mammalia - Perissodactyla

Full reference: B. L. Beatty and T. C. Cockburn. 2015. New insights on the most primitive desmostylian from a partial skeleton of Behemotops (Desmostylia, Mammalia) from Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology e979939

Parent taxon: Desmostylia according to K. Matsui and T. Tsuihiji 2019

See also Beatty and Cockburn 2015, Berta 2017 and Domning 2018

Sister taxa: Behemotops, Cornwalliidae, Desmostyloidea, Jamilcotatus, Kronokotherium

Subtaxa: Seuku emlongi

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Ecology: amphibious herbivore

Distribution: found only at Elephant Rock, SE of (Oligocene of Oregon)

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