Congenital Ocular Findings in an Antillean Manatee (Trichechus manatus manatus) [PDF]
Veterinary Medicine and ScienceThe West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus manatus), a sirenian species critically endangered throughout its range, possesses unique ocular adaptations to aquatic life, including reduced eyes, vascularized corneas and an anteriorly displaced lens.
Fernanda Loffler Niemeyer Attademo +7 more
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A new Sirenian from the Miocene of Kachchh, Western India.
Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India, 1987 A new fossil sirenian metaxytherium kachchhnesis sp. nov. is recorded from the sediments belonging to the Khari series (Lower Miocene) exposed in the Khari River section near Aida in Southwestern Kachchh.
Sunil Bajpai
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Iterative evolution of sympatric seacow (Dugongidae, Sirenia) assemblages during the past ~26 million years. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Extant sirenians show allopatric distributions throughout most of their range. However, their fossil record shows evidence of multispecies communities throughout most of the past ∼26 million years, in different oceanic basins.
Jorge Velez-Juarbe +2 more
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A New Miocene Sirenian from Kutch, India [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2009 We report a new Miocene sirenian from District Kutch, State of Gujarat, India: Domingia sodhae gen. et sp. nov. The new species is a dugongine dugongid with flattened tusk-like upper incisors. Like some other Miocene dugongids, Domningia is large and has complex, bilophodont molars and three-rooted premolars, which are strongly worn.
Thewissen, J.G.M., Bajpai, Sunil
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NEW SIRENIAN RECORD FROM LOWER PLIOCENE SEDIMENTS OF TUSCANY (ITALY)
Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 2007 A left humerus of a sirenian found in the upper part of a marine succession from Camigliano (Siena, Italy) is described. Foraminiferal assemblages reveal that this humerus belongs to a specimen living during the early Zanclean (Globorotalia margaritae ...
SILVIA SORBI, STEFANO CLAUDIO VAIANI
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ON A SKULL OF A SIRENIAN FROM THE EARLY PLIOCENE OF SIENA, TUSCANY
Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 2020 A fine skull of a sirenian from Early Pliocene littoral sands with Late Ruscinian terrestrial mammals near Siena is referred to Metaxitherium gervaisi (Capellini, 1872); it provides detailed information on the characters of this species, which was ...
DANIELA CANOCCHI
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Zoosystematics and Evolution, 2014 The holotype of the sirenian species Halitherium schinzii Kaup, 1838 from the Alzey Formation (early Oligocene) of the Mainz Basin, western Germany, is reviewed in detail and revised.
Manja Voss
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Relative white blood cell counts, heterophil-to-lymphocyte ratio, and discovery of blood parasites in wild dugong (Dugong dugon) at Lingayan Island, Toli-toli, Indonesia [PDF]
Veterinary World, 2020 Aim: This study was conducted to investigate the relative white blood cell (WBC) counts and the heterophil-to-lymphocyte (H/L) ratio and to analyze the presence of blood parasites in wild dugongs at Lingayan Island.
Aryani Sismin Satyaningtijas +4 more
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First adequately-known quadrupedal sirenian from Eurasia (Eocene, Bay of Biscay, Huesca, northeastern Spain). [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2018 Sirenians are the only extant herbivorous mammals fully adapted to an aquatic lifestyle. They originated in Africa during the Paleocene from an undetermined clade of afrotherian mammals, and by the end of the Eocene they were widely distributed across ...
Díaz-Berenguer E +3 more
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A Window onto the Eocene (Cenozoic): The Palaeontological Record of the Sobrarbe-Pirineos UNESCO Global Geopark (Huesca, Aragon, Spain) [PDF]
Geoconservation Research, 2021 The Sobrarbe-Pirineos UNESCO Global Geopark, located in the Central Pyrenees, is a region of remarkable geodiversity that includes extensive Eocene fossil-bearing sites and constitutes an important archive of paleobiodiversity.
Jose Canudo +11 more
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