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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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Identification of alimentary components of Antillean manatee diet in the Northeast of Brazil [PDF]
Biotemas, 2008 The manatees are considered to be opportunist herbivors, consuming a great amount of alimentary items. The aim of the present study was to identify the alimentary components of the diet of Antillean manatees in free life in the northeastern region of ...
Daiane Garcia Anzolin +3 more
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Anthracobunids from the middle eocene of India and pakistan are stem perissodactyls. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Anthracobunidae is an Eocene family of large mammals from south Asia that is commonly considered to be part of the radiation that gave rise to elephants (proboscideans) and sea cows (sirenians).
Lisa Noelle Cooper +6 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Although there is growing concern about ingestion of microplastics by marine organisms, little research has been conducted on marine herbivores. This is the first study to document microplastic ingestion within the family Sirenia.
Shannon Gowans, Amy N. S. Siuda
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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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SIRENIA FOSSILS FROM QOM FORMATION (BURDIGALIAN) OF THE KABUDAR AHANG AREA, NORTHWEST IRAN
Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 2016 Fossil remains of sirenians (Mammalia; Dugongidae) are reported from the late early Miocene (Burdigalian) Qom Formation near the town of Shirin Su, northwest Kabudar Ahang region, west of Tehran, Iran. The fossils consist of partial postcranial skeletons
NASROLLAH ABBASSI +3 more
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A new Oligocene site with terrestrial mammals and a selachian fauna from Minqar Tibaghbagh, the western Desert of Egypt [PDF]
, 2017 A new fossil site at Minqar Tibaghbagh, east of Siwa, in the Egyptian Western Desert is described. This represents the first place in Egypt outside the Fayum Depression yielding Paleogene, terrestrial mammals.
Bosselaers, M. +5 more
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Early postnatal growth of the spotted dolphin, Stenella attenuata, in the offshore Eastern Tropical Pacific. [PDF]
, 1984 Estimates of length at birth and early postnatal growth are made for the northern and southern populations of the offshore spotted dolphin in the offshore eastern tropical Pacific.
Hammond, P.S., Hohn, Aleta A.
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Humans are not unique: difficult birth is common in placental mammals
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Human childbirth is widely presumed to be uniquely difficult and dangerous compared to birth in other mammals. Tight fetopelvic proportions can result in obstructed labour and contribute to high rates of maternal and neonatal mortality. Ideas summarised under the ‘obstetrical dilemma’ have contributed to this assumption by explaining difficult
Nicole D. S. Grunstra
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Caldasia, 2018 Observations on the epizoic interaction between diatoms and marine mammals have been conducted mostly in cetaceans and are scarce in sirenians. By scraping the skin surface, the samples of biofilm were collected of a captive male Caribbean manatee in ...
Marco Violante-Huerta +2 more
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