Mammalia - Sirenia - Protosirenidae

Alternative combinations: Hippopotamus (Tetraprotodon) minimus, Hippopotamus minimus

Full reference: A. G. Desmarest. 1822. Mammalogie ou description des especes de mammiferes. Second partie, contenant les orders des rongeurs, des edentes, des pachydermes, des ruminans et des cetaces 277-556

Belongs to Protosiren according to D. P. Domning 1996

See also Desmarest 1822 and Falconer and Cautley 1836

Sister taxa: Protosiren eothene, Protosiren fraasi, Protosiren sattaensis, Protosiren smithae

Type specimen: Its type locality is Blaye, which is in a Lutetian/Bartonian marine horizon in France

Ecology: aquatic herbivore

Distribution: found only at Blaye

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