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"Jacobs, Louis L."

 
D
 Jacobs, Louis L.; Fiorillo, Anthony R.; Gangloff, Roland; Pasch, Anne (detail)
   
2007
Desmostylian remains from Unalaska Island, Aleutian chain, Alaska.
Bull. Carnegie Mus. Nat. Hist. No. 39: 189-202. 11 figs.
–Describes unnamed desmostylian remains of Late Olig. or (more likely) earliest Mioc. age.
 
D
 Jacobs, Louis L.; Fiorillo, Anthony R.; Nishida, Yosuke; Fitzgerald, Erich M. G. (detail)
   
2009
Mid-Cenozoic marine mammals from Alaska. In: L.B. Albright, III (ed.), Papers on geology, vertebrate paleontology, and biostratigraphy in honor of Michael O. Woodburne.
Museum of Northern Arizona Bull. No. 65: 171-184. 6 figs.
–ABSTRACT: Mid-Cenozoic marine mammals of Alaska were isolated from the Arctic Ocean by Beringia and were thus part of a far North Pacific ecosystem. The amphicynodontid ?Kolponomos, a neocete whale, and a desmostylian were found in the latest Oligocene or earliest Miocene (approximately 23 Ma) Dutch Harbor Member of the Unalaska Formation, Aleutian Chain, Alaska. The Unalaska desmostylian is more derived than Cornwallius but more primitive than Desmostylus. Derived desmostylians are known from the early middle Miocene (16-15 Ma) Bear Lake Formation on the Alaska Peninsula and the Narrow Cape Formation on Kodiak Island. The Miocene Yakatat Formation has produced sparse mammal remains but records the onset of montane glaciation in southern Alaska.
 
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 Chiba, Kentaro; Fiorillo, Anthony R.; Jacobs, Louis L.; Kimura, Yuri; Kobayashi, Yoshitsugu; Kohno, Naoki; Nishida, Yosuke; Polcyn, Michael J.; Tanaka, Kohei (detail)
   
2015
A new desmostylian mammal from Unalaska (USA) and the robust Sanjussen jaw from Hokkaido (Japan), with comments on feeding in derived desmostylids.
Historical Biology 28(1-2): 289-303. 1 tab. 9 figs. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2015.1046718 Publ. online Oct. 1, 2015.
–ABSTRACT: Derived members of the enigmatic mammalian order Desmostylia have molars comprising appressed columns whose morphology does not render their function in feeding simple to discern. Here we describe a new genus and species, Ounalashkastylus tomidai, more derived than Cornwallius but less derived than Desmostylus and Vanderhoofius, which develop a hypertrophied medial eminence on the dentary ontogenetically. Tooth morphology, vaulted palate and the medial eminence, which can rise to the level of the occlusal surface of M2, suggest that derived desmostylids clenched their teeth strongly while employing suction during feeding, most likely on marine and coastal plants.
Daryl P. Domning, Research Associate, Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560, and Laboratory of Evolutionary Biology, Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, Howard University, Washington, D.C. 20059.
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