- (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...
-
characters in
their petrosal bones, but this link may be a homoplasy.
Desmostylians,
traditionally considered tethytheres, have been
tentatively ****igned...
-
primitive known desmostylian,
believed to be
close to the
ancestry of all
other desmostylians. In
comparison with
later known desmostylians,
Behemotops had...
- has been
found in a
cladistic study that the
anthracobunids and the
desmostylians – two
lineages that have been
previously classified as Afrotherians...
- that
desmostylians browsed on
terrestrial plants and had a
posture similar to
other large hoofed mammals.
Altungulata Meridiungulata Desmostylians, however...
-
Ounalashkastylus is an
extinct genus of
desmostylian that
lived in
Alaska during the
Miocene epoch. It is
known from a
single species, Ounalashkastylus...
-
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...
-
cetaceans and the
requiem sharks,
which also
appeared in this epoch.
Early desmostylians, like Behemotops, are
known from the Oligocene.
Pinnipeds appeared near...
-
primitive proboscideans possibly ancestral to the
Moeritheriidae and the
desmostylians. The
family has also
thought to be
ancestral to the Sirenia. They superficially...
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limbs were short.
These divergent traits have led to
comparisons with
desmostylians, a
lineage of
extinct mammals formerly believed to have been relatives...
