- (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...
- 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...
-
primitive known desmostylian,
believed to be
close to the
ancestry of all
other desmostylians. In
comparison with
later known desmostylians,
Behemotops had...
-
limbs were short.
These divergent traits have led to
comparisons with
desmostylians, a
lineage of
extinct mammals formerly believed to have been relatives...
- seafloor,
similar to
sirenians (manatees and dugongs) and the
extinct desmostylians,
becoming specialist bottom feeders of seagr****es. They
probably fed...
-
characters in
their petrosal bones, but this link may be a homoplasy.
Desmostylians,
traditionally considered tethytheres, have been
tentatively ****igned...
-
primitive proboscideans possibly ancestral to the
Moeritheriidae and the
desmostylians. The
family has also
thought to be
ancestral to the Sirenia. They superficially...
-
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...
