Bibliography Record

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Court, Nicholas; Jaeger, Jean-Jacques (detail)
   
1991
Anatomy of the periotic bone in the Eocene proboscidean Numidotherium koholense: an example of parallel evolution in the inner ear of tethytheres.
C.R. Acad. Sci. Paris 312, Sér. II: 559-565. 1 pl.
–French summ. Compares the cochlear foramina in an early proboscidean, Trichechus, and Prorastomus, concluding that a supposed tethythere synapomorphy was evolved in parallel in sirs. and proboscideans.

Related Index Records (4)

Phylogeny and Affinities of the Sirenia and/or Desmostylia
(SEE ALSO under species)
  x 1991 Court & Jaeger (periotic characters in Proboscidea & Sirenia; 559-565.)

Prorastomus Owen, 1855
  x 1991 Court & Jaeger (inner ear; 562, 564-565.)

Sense Organs
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Investigative, and Sense Perception; Brain and Nervous System; Digestive System; Skeleton; Sound Production)
  x 1991 Court & Jaeger (Prorastomus, Trichechus; inner ear; 559-565.)

Trichechus Linnaeus, 1758
  x 1991 Court & Jaeger (inner ear; comp. w/ proboscideans; 559-565.)


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