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- (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...
- primitive known desmostylian, believed to be close to the ancestry of all other desmostylians. In comparison with later known desmostylians, Behemotops had...
- million years ago, are known from the Miocene of South America. The last Desmostylians thrived during this period before becoming the only extinct marine mammal...
- Ounalashkastylus is an extinct genus of desmostylian that lived in Alaska during the Miocene epoch. It is known from a single species, Ounalashkastylus...
- that desmostylians browsed on terrestrial plants and had a posture similar to other large hoofed mammals. Altungulata Meridiungulata Desmostylians, however...
- characters in their petrosal bones, but this link may be a homoplasy. Desmostylians, traditionally considered tethytheres, have been tentatively ****igned...
- teeth. 15 reports about exceptionally well-preserved paleoparadoxiid desmostylian from Gifu Prefecture, ****an are published, this specimen is called as...
- cetaceans and the requiem sharks, which also appeared in this epoch. Early desmostylians, like Behemotops, are known from the Oligocene. Pinnipeds appeared near...
- has been found in a cladistic study that the anthracobunids and the desmostylians – two lineages that have been previously classified as Afrotherians...
- Solvang, Palos Verdes, Leisure World A desmostylian. Jamilcotatus J. boreios Santa Cruz Island A desmostylian, not officially named. Neoparadoxia N. cecilialina...