- (Rupelian) to the late
Miocene (Tortonian) (30.8 to 7.25
million years ago).
Desmostylians are the only
known extinct order of
marine mammals. The Desmostylia...
- that
desmostylians browsed on
terrestrial plants and had a
posture similar to
other large hoofed mammals.
Altungulata Meridiungulata Desmostylians, however...
- has been
found in a
cladistic study that the
anthracobunids and the
desmostylians – two
lineages that have been
previously classified as Afrotherians...
-
characters in
their petrosal bones, but this link may be a homoplasy.
Desmostylians,
traditionally considered tethytheres, have been
tentatively ****igned...
-
afrotherian orders of
embrithopods and
desmostylians were also once
widely distributed. However, the
desmostylians have
recently been
viewed as possible...
- more
closely related to hyraxes, elephants, sirenians, and
possibly desmostylians (as part of the
superorder Afrotheria). The last genus, Arsinoitherium...
-
cetaceans and the
requiem sharks,
which also
appeared in this epoch.
Early desmostylians, like Behemotops, are
known from the Oligocene.
Pinnipeds appeared near...
- Formation. 15
reports about exceptionally well-preserved
paleoparadoxiid desmostylian from Gifu Prefecture, ****an are published, this
specimen is
called as...
- have
shown that,
while anthracobunids are
definite perissodactyls,
desmostylians have
enough mixed characters to
suggest that a
position among the Afrotheria...
- Mckenna,
Malcolm C.; Ray,
Clayton Edward (1986). Two new
Oligocene desmostylians and a
discussion of
tethytherian systematics. City of Washington: Smithsonian...
