Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Desmostylidae
Synonym: Desmostylella Nagao 1937
Full reference: O. C. Marsh. 1888. Notice of a new fossil sirenian, from California. American Journal of Science 25(8):94-96
Parent taxon: Desmostylidae according to K. Matsui and T. Tsuihiji 2019
See also Barnes and Goedert 2001, Beatty 2009, Berta 2017, Boessenecker 2011, Carroll 1988, Clark and Arnold 1923, Domning 1996, Domning 2008, Domning 2018, Domning et al. 1986, Dubrovo and Sinel'nikova 1971, Hasegawa et al. 1995, Hay 1902, Hay 1915, Hay 1923, Hay 1930, Inuzuka 2000, Inuzuka et al. 1995, Kretzoi 1941, Marsh 1888, Matsui 2017, Matsui and Pyenson 2023, McKenna and Bell 1997, Mitchell and Repenning 1963, Palmer 1904, Reinhart 1959, Sepkoski 2002, Shikama 1966, Simpson 1932, Trouessart 1898, Trouessart 1904, VanderHoof 1937 and Zittel 1925
Sister taxa: Ashoroa, Cornwallius, Ounalashkastylus, Vanderhoofius
Subtaxa: Desmostylus hesperus Desmostylus japonicus
Ecology: amphibious herbivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Japan (37 collections), Mexico (3), the Russian Federation (10), United States (50: California, Oregon, Washington)
• Neogene of Japan (1)
• Arikareean of United States (2: California, Oregon)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Japan (2)
Total: 105 collections including 114 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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