Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Desmostylidae
Full reference: O. P. Hay. 1923. Characteristics of sundry fossil vertebrates. Pan-American Geologist 39:101-120
Parent taxon: Desmostylidae according to K. Matsui and T. Tsuihiji 2019
See also Beatty 2009, Beatty 2023, Berta 2017, Carroll 1988, Domning 1996, Domning 2008, Domning 2018, Domning et al. 1986, Hay 1930, Inuzuka 2000, Inuzuka et al. 1995, Kretzoi 1941, McKenna and Bell 1997, Reinhart 1959, Sepkoski 2002, Shikama 1966, VanderHoof 1937 and VanderHoof 1942
Sister taxa: Ashoroa, Desmostylus, Ounalashkastylus, Vanderhoofius
Subtaxa: Cornwallius sookensis
Type: Paleoparadoxia tabatai
Ecology: amphibious herbivore
Distribution:
• Arikareean of Mexico (1 collection)
• Oligocene of Canada (3: British Columbia), Mexico (3), United States (4: Alaska, Oregon)
Total: 11 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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