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Desmostylus japonicus
Taxonomy
Desmostylus japonicus was named by Tokunaga and Iwasaki (1914). Its type specimen is NMNS PV-5600, a partial skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Bogahora Valley, which is in a Miocene marine horizon in the Akeyo Formation of Japan.
It was synonymized subjectively with Desmostylus hesperus by VanderHoof (1937), Reinhart (1959), Dubrovo and Sinel'nikova (1971) and Domning (1996); it was recombined as Desmostylus hesperus japonicus by Shikama (1966), Kamei and Okazaki (1974) and Hasegawa et al. (1995).
It was synonymized subjectively with Desmostylus hesperus by VanderHoof (1937), Reinhart (1959), Dubrovo and Sinel'nikova (1971) and Domning (1996); it was recombined as Desmostylus hesperus japonicus by Shikama (1966), Kamei and Okazaki (1974) and Hasegawa et al. (1995).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1914 | Desmostylus japonicus Tokunaga and Iwasaki |
| 1966 | Desmostylus hesperus japonicus Shikama p. 161 |
| 1974 | Desmostylus hesperus japonicus Kamei and Okazaki p. 265 |
| 1995 | Desmostylus hesperus japonicus Hasegawa et al. p. 5 |
| 2000 | Desmostylus japonicus Kohno p. 148 |
| 2009 | Desmostylus japonicus Sakurai p. 22 |
| 2019 | Desmostylus japonicus Matsui and Tsuihiji |
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†Desmostylus japonicus Tokunaga and Iwasaki 1914
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available