- (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...
- 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...
-
characters in
their petrosal bones, but this link may be a homoplasy.
Desmostylians,
traditionally considered tethytheres, have been
tentatively ****igned...
- has been
found in a
cladistic study that the
anthracobunids and the
desmostylians – two
lineages that have been
previously classified as Afrotherians...
-
cetaceans and the
requiem sharks,
which also
appeared in this epoch.
Early desmostylians, like Behemotops, are
known from the Oligocene.
Pinnipeds appeared near...
- teeth. 15
reports about exceptionally well-preserved
paleoparadoxiid desmostylian from Gifu Prefecture, ****an are published, this
specimen is
called as...
- of
active swimming and
possibly feeding at the surface,
unlike other desmostylians that were
primarily slow
swimmers and/or
bottom walkers and sea gr****...
