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 Mitchell, Edward D., Jr. (detail)
   
1963
Contributions from the Los Angeles Museum-Channel Islands Biological Survey. 37. Brachydont desmostylian from Miocene of San Clemente Island, California.
Bull. So. California Acad. Sci. 62(4): 192-201. 2 tabs. 1 fig. Oct.-Dec. 1963.
–Reports teeth and bone fragments of Paleoparadoxia sp., compares them with other desmostylians, and reviews distribution records of the order. States that pachyostosis occurs in bones referred to Paleoparadoxia.
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 Mitchell, Edward D., Jr.; Repenning, Charles A. (detail)
   
1963
The chronologic and geographic range of desmostylians.
Los Angeles County Mus. Contr. Sci. No. 78: 3-20. 4 figs. Dec. 30, 1963.
–Summarizes the records of Desmostylus, Paleoparadoxia, Cornwallius, Vanderhoofius, and other nominal genera of desmostylians, plus those of North Pacific sirs. Concludes that desmostylians lived in the North Pacific from the Late Oligocene to the end of the Miocene.
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 Mitchell, Edward D., Jr. (detail)
   
1964
Pachyostosis in desmostylids. [Abstr.]
Geol. Soc. Amer. Spec. Paper No. 76: 214.
–Concludes that desmostylians are pachyostotic.
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 Mitchell, Edward D., Jr.; Lipps, Jere H. (detail)
   
1964
Miocene marine vertebrates from San Clemente Island, California. [Abstr.]
Geol. Soc. Amer. Spec. Paper No. 76: 214-215.
–Summarizes the fauna, which includes a "brachyodont desmostylid, and paenungulate aff. Desmostylia", and considers it comparable to the Sharktooth Hill fauna in age and paleoecology.
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 Mitchell, Edward D., Jr. (detail)
   
1965
History of research at Sharktooth Hill, Kern County, California.
Spec. Publ. Kern Co. Hist. Soc.: vi + 45. 14 figs.
–Reports a tooth of Desmostylus hesperus from Sharktooth Hill (iii, 3, 7, 21, 26-29, 36).
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 Mitchell, Edward D., Jr.; Lipps, Jere H. (detail)
   
1965
Fossil collecting on San Clemente Island.
Pacif. Discovery 18(3): 2-8. 19 figs. May-June 1965.
–Includes a brief account of desmostylians, with photos of Paleoparadoxia bones from the island and of their collection, and a restoration of the animal by C.A. Repenning (4-6).
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 Mitchell, Edward D., Jr. (detail)
   
1966
Faunal succession of extinct North Pacific marine mammals.
Norsk Hvalfangst-Tidende 1966(3): 47-60. 19 figs.
–Gen. acc. of desmostylians (50, 53, 56, 57, 59) and of North Pacific sirs. (56, 59, 60), with figs. of a Desmostylus tooth and humerus (56) and life restorations by Bonnie Dalzell of Desmostylus, Paleoparadoxia (57), and Halianassa (59).
 
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 Mitchell, Edward D., Jr. (detail)
   
1978
Origins of eastern North Pacific sea mammal fauna. In: D. Haley (ed.), Marine mammals.
Seattle, Pacific Search Press (256 pp.): 13-20. 9 figs.
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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