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Whitmore, Frank Clifford, Jr.: SEE ALSO Gard et al., 1972; Gernant et al., 1971; Kellogg & Whitmore, 1957. (detail)
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Kellogg, Remington; Whitmore, Frank Clifford, Jr. (detail)
   
1957
Mammals. In: H. S. Ladd (ed.), Treatise on marine ecology and paleocology. Vol. 2. Paleoecology (x + 1077 pp.).
Mem. Geol. Soc. Amer. 67(2): 1021-1024.
–Discusses the paleoenvironments of several Miocene sirs.: Miosiren (Antwerp Basin, Belgium), oceanic coastline (1021); Metaxytherium (Calvert Fm., Maryland), large estuary; Hesperosiren (Hawthorn Fm., Florida), environment similar to present Atlantic coast of Florida (1022).
  Vol. 1 (Ecology, J.W. Hedgpeth, ed.; Mem. 67(1): viii + 1296) of this treatise contains an article on "Marine Mammals" by the same authors (1223-1226), with a brief paragraph summarizing Recent sir. distribution on p. 1223. This is not indexed here.
 
 
Gernant, Robert E.; Gibson, Thomas G.; Whitmore, Frank Clifford, Jr. (detail)
   
1971
Environmental history of Maryland Miocene.
Maryland Geol. Surv. Guidebook No. 3: 1-58.
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Gard, Leonard Meade, Jr.; Lewis, G. E.; Whitmore, Frank Clifford, Jr. (detail)
   
1972
Steller's sea cow in Pleistocene interglacial beach deposits on Amchitka, Aleutian Islands.
Geol. Soc. Amer. Bull. 83(3): 867-869. Mar. 1972.
–Describes the circumstances of discovery of a partial skeleton of a juvenile Hydrodamalis at South Bight, Amchitka, and reviews other North Pacific records of Hydrodamalis and the Aleutian occurrence of Cornwallius.
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Whitmore, Frank Clifford, Jr.; Gard, Leonard Meade, Jr. (detail)
   
1977
Steller's sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas) of Late Pleistocene age from Amchitka, Aleutian Islands, Alaska.
U.S. Geol. Surv. Prof. Paper 1036: iii + 19. 5 tabs. Cover illus. + 10 figs. 8 pls.
–Describes a partial skeleton of an immature animal and other Hydrodamalis remains from a deposit at South Bight, Amchitka. Also includes many measurements and illustrations of Bering Island H. gigas specimens in the U.S. National Museum; a description of a supposed Hydrodamalis rib fragment from Kangiguksuk, northwestern Alaska (3, 15-16); and illustrations of the mounted Hydrodamalis skeleton at Stockholm (pl. 1). The cover illustration of a sea cow was first publ. in V.B. Scheffer (1973).
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Whitmore, Frank Clifford, Jr. (detail)
   
1987
A delphinoid ear bone from the Dam Formation (Miocene) of Saudi Arabia.
Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.), Geol. 41(4): 447-450. Fig. 53.
–Mentions "fragmented ribs of sirenians" found at the type locality of the Burdigalian Dam Formation at Jabal Lidam, eastern Saudi Arabia (447).

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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