Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Desmostylidae

Full reference: N. Inuzuka. 2000. Primitive late Oligocene desmostylians from Japan and Phylogeny of the Desmostylia. Bulletin of the Ashoro Museum of Paleontology 1:91-123

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

See also Berta 2017, Domning 2018, Inuzuka 2000 and Matsui 2017

Sister taxa: Cornwallius, Desmostylus, Ounalashkastylus, Vanderhoofius

Subtaxa: Ashoroa laticosta

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Ecology: amphibious herbivore

Distribution: found only at Morawan (Lower Hard Shale Member) (Oligocene of Japan)

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