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 Domning, Daryl Paul (detail)
   
1982b
Evolution of manatees: a speculative history.
Jour. Paleont. 56(3): 599-619. 9 figs. May 1982.
–Reviews all records of fossil trichechids and possible trichechids, and proposes an evolutionary scenario for the family, based on Tertiary changes in South American drainage patterns and the evolution of floating meadows. Reports new material of: Potamosiren sp., Miocene, Colombia (601-602); Ribodon limbatus, Miocene, Argentina (602-603); Ribodon sp., ?Pliocene, North Carolina (604); Trichechus sp., Plio-Pleistocene, Brazil (603-604) and Florida (604-605) and Pleistocene, Louisiana (605). Illustrates for the first time Funderburg's (1960) Pleistocene Trichechus from North Carolina (605). Discusses the homology of cheek teeth in Trichechus (607-608), the importance of a gramineous diet in the manatees' evolution of horizontal tooth replacement (609-612), possible trichechid-dugongid competition in the Caribbean (613-614), and the present adaptive status of manatees (615-616). Suggests that root hypsodonty in Dugong is recently evolved (614). Concludes that trichechids probably evolved in South America from a protosirenid ancestor, and adapted there to a diet of freshwater grasses by the evolution of supernumerary molars.

Related Index Records (39)

Argentina
  x 1982b Domning, D.P. (Ribodon limbatus; Mioc.-Plioc., Paran  R.; 602-603.)
Brazil
  x 1982b Domning, D.P. (Trichechus; Pleist., Acre; 603-604.)
Colombia
  x 1982b Domning, D.P. (Potamosiren sp.; Mioc.; 601-602.)
Dioplotherium allisoni (Kilmer, 1965) Domning, 1978
  x 1982b Domning, D.P. (incipient root hypsodonty; 614.)
Dugong Lacépède, 1799
  x 1982b Domning, D.P. (diet & evolution; 610, 613-614, 616.)
Eotheroides aegyptiacum (Owen, 1875) Trouessart, 1905
  x 1982b Domning, D.P. (possibly ancestral to trichechids; 600.)
Florida
  x 1982b Domning, D.P. (Trichechus sp., Pleist., 604-605; TML, quartz sand & tooth wear, 615-616.)
Food
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Ingestive; Captivity, Sirenians in; Digestive System; Food Plants; Weed Control) (NOTE: Plants reported as part of the captive but not the natural diet of sirs. will not necessarily be found under Food Plants. Papers referring to them are, however, indexed here.)
  x * 1982b Domning, D.P. (Trichechidae; diet & evolution; 609-616.)
Food Plants: Impatiens
(Balsaminaceae)
  x 1982b Domning, D.P. (West Africa; 610, 615.)
Food Plants: Nymphaea
(Nymphaeaceae)
  x 1982b Domning, D.P. ("N. cf. rufescens"; West Africa; 609-610.)
Food Plants: Nymphaea lotus
(Nymphaeaceae)
  x 1982b Domning, D.P. (West Africa; 609-610.)
Halitherium schinzii (Kaup, 1838) Kaup, 1855
  x 1982b Domning, D.P. (molarization of premolars; m608.)
Lophiodolodus Stirton, 1947
(Mammalia incertae sedis)
  x 1982b Domning, D.P. (probably not a sir.; 600.)
Louisiana
  x 1982b Domning, D.P. (Trichechus sp.; Late Pleist., Jefferson Davis Par.; 605.)
Metaxytherium floridanum Hay, 1922
  x v 1982b Domning, D.P. (comp. w/ Potamosiren, 602; tooth wear, 614.)
Metaxytherium ortegense Kellogg, 1966
(= Potamosiren magdalenensis)
  x 1982b Domning, D.P. (comp. w/ Potamosiren; 602, 612.)
Miocene
  x 1982b Domning, D.P. (Potamosiren sp., Colombia, 601-602; Ribodon limbatus, Argentina, 602.)
North Carolina
  x 1982b Domning, D.P. (Ribodon sp., ?Plioc., 604; Trichechus sp., Pleist., 605.)
Paleoecology and Taphonomy
  x 1982b Domning, D.P. (trichechids; South America; evolution & environmental changes; 607, 610-616.)
Parasites: Chiorchis fabaceus (Diesing, 1838) Fischoeder, 1901
(Trematoda)
  x 1982b Domning, D.P. (zoogeographic significance; 613.)
Pleistocene
  x 1982b Domning, D.P. (Trichechus sp.; Brazil, 603-604; Florida, 604-605; Louisiana, 605.)
Pliocene
  x 1982b Domning, D.P. (Ribodon, North Carolina; Trichechus, Florida; 604.)
Potamosiren Reinhart, 1951
  x * 1982b Domning, D.P. (Potamosiren sp.; Mioc., Colombia; 601-602, 606.)
Potamosiren magdalenensis Reinhart, 1951
  x * 1982b Domning, D.P. (phyletic position; 600-603, 606-607, 609, 611-613, 616.)
Prorastomus sirenoides Owen, 1855
  x 1982b Domning, D.P. (not closely related to trichechids; 599.)
Protosiren Abel, 1907
  x 1982b Domning, D.P. (?ancestral to trichechids; 599-600, 605, 615-616.)
Prototherium veronense (de Zigno, 1875) de Zigno, 1887
  x 1982b Domning, D.P. (deciduous dentition, comp. w/ Trichechus; 608.)
Ribodon Ameghino, 1883
  x * 1982b Domning, D.P. (?Plioc., North Carolina; 604.)
Ribodon limbatus Ameghino, 1883
  x * 1982b Domning, D.P. (new material & phyletic position; 602-604, 606, 609, 611-613, 616.)
Sirenotherium pirabense de Paula Couto, 1967
  x 1982b Domning, D.P. (referred to Trichechidae or Dugongidae incertae sedis; 600, 606, 612.)
South America
(SEE ALSO under countries)
  x * 1982b Domning, D.P. (role in trichechid evolution, 599, 605-607, 610-613, 616; evolution of floating meadows & changes in Amazonian drainage pattern, 610-613.)
Tooth Replacement
  x * 1982b Domning, D.P. (trichechids, diet & evolution, 601, 603, 607-611, 613-616; Trichechus, cheek-tooth homologies, 607-608.)
Trachypleurotherium Dilg, 1909
(nomen nudum)
  x 1982b Domning, D.P. (probable horizon; considered nomen nudum; 600.)
Trichechidae Gill, 1872 (1821)
(family)
  x * 1982b Domning, D.P. (origin & evolution; 599-619.)
Trichechus Linnaeus, 1758
  x * 1982b Domning, D.P. (origin & evolution; 599-619.)
Trichechus antiquus (Leidy, 1856) Hay, 1902
(nomen dubium)
  x 1982b Domning, D.P. (specimen of Hay [1919] considered Subrecent TM; 604-605.)
Trichechus inunguis (Natterer in von Pelzeln, 1883) Thomas and Lydekker, 1897
  x * 1982b Domning, D.P. (evolution; 600, 603-613, 615-616.)
Trichechus manatus Linnaeus, 1758
  x * 1982b Domning, D.P. (evolution; 600, 603-616.)
Trichechus senegalensis Link, 1795
  x * 1982b Domning, D.P. (evolution; 600, 602, 604-613, 615-616.)

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