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"Kleinschmidt, Adolf"

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 Kleinschmidt, Adolf (detail)
   
1951
Über ein Skelet und eine Rekonstruktion des äusseren Habitus der Riesenseekuh, Rhytina gigas Zimmermann 1780.
Zool. Anz. 146(9/10): 292-314. 11 figs. May 1951.
–Lists material of Hydrodamalis gigas known to be in various museums, describes bones in the Braunschweig Museum, and describes in detail the construction of a scale model of the animal based on Steller's account and on a mounted skeleton.
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 Kleinschmidt, Adolf (detail)
   
1982
Wissenswertes über die Säugerordnung der Seekühe (Sirenia) unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Stellerschen Riesenseekuh Rhytina gigas (Zimmermann, 1780) sowie ihre hochgradige Anpassung an das Wasserleben im Vergleich zu den Walen.
Braunschw. Naturk. Schr. 1(3): 367-418. 7 tabs. 23 figs. Oct. 1982.
–Engl. summ. Discusses skeletons of Hydrodamalis gigas in various museums, details of old and new Hydrodamalis reconstructions, comparative bone density, pelvic, skull, and snout structure in various sirs., phylogeny and distribution of fossil and Recent sirs., and generalities about aquatic adaptation and locomotion. A rather random assortment of information and misinformation, much of it seriously outdated due to failure to cite many important papers of the previous three decades.
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 Kleinschmidt, Adolf (detail)
   
1983
Notiz zu weiterem Skelet-Material der Stellerschen Riesenseekuh Rhytina gigas (Sirenia, Mammalia).
Braunschw. Naturk. Schr. 1(4): 763-765. 1 fig. Oct. 1983.
–Lists material of Hydrodamalis gigas in the museums at Darmstadt, Göteborg, Lund, and Uppsala; reproduces and comments on an illustration of manatee bones and "Sirens" from Bartholin (1661).
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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