Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Desmostylidae

Full reference: R. H. Reinhart. 1959. A review of the Sirenia and Desmostylia. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 36(1):1-146

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

See also Barnes and Goedert 2001, Beatty 2009, Berta 2017, Domning 1996, Domning 2008, Domning 2018, Inuzuka et al. 1995, McKenna and Bell 1997, Reinhart 1959 and Shikama 1966

Sister taxa: Ashoroa, Cornwallius, Desmostylus, Ounalashkastylus

Subtaxa: Vanderhoofius coalingensis

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Ecology: amphibious herbivore

Distribution: found only at Garza Creek (Miocene of California)

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