Bibliography Record

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 Domning, Daryl Paul (detail)
   
1982c
Fossil Sirenia from the Sahabi Formation.
Garyounis Scientific Bull. (Benghazi) Special Issue No. 4: 29-32. 2 figs.
–Reports Metaxytherium serresii from the Early Pliocene Sahabi Formation, Libya, and suggests that this species was dwarfed due to suboptimal conditions for seagrasses in the post-Messinian Mediterranean.

Related Index Records (10)

Africa
(SEE ALSO: Indian Ocean; Egypt; Madagascar; Red Sea)
  x 1982c Domning, D.P. (Metaxytherium serresii; Plioc., Sahabi, Libya; 29-32.)
Felsinotherium Capellini, 1872
(= Metaxytherium)
  x 1982c Domning, D.P. (syn. of Metaxytherium; m30.)
Haplosiren leganyii Kretzoi, 1951
(= Metaxytherium medium?)
  1982c Domning, D.P. (comp. w/ Metaxytherium serresi; 29-30.)
Metaxytherium cuvierii (de Christol, 1832) de Christol in de Blainville, 1844
(= Metaxytherium medium)
  x 1982c Domning, D.P. (syn. of M. medium; m29.)
Metaxytherium forestii (Capellini, 1872) Fondi and Pacini, 1974
(= Metaxytherium subapenninum)
  x 1982c Domning, D.P. (comp. w/ M. serresii; 29-31.)
Metaxytherium medium (Desmarest, 1822) Hooijer, 1952
  x 1982c Domning, D.P. (comp. w/ M. serresii; 29-31.)
Metaxytherium serresii (Gervais, 1849) Depéret, 1895
  x 1982c Domning, D.P. (Plioc., Libya; 29-32.)
Natural Enemies
(SEE ALSO: Natural Death or Injury)
  x 1982c Domning, D.P. (Metaxytherium serresii; Plioc., Libya; bones scarred by shark Carcharodon megalodon; 29, 32.)
Paleoecology and Taphonomy
  x 1982c Domning, D.P. (Metaxytherium serresii; Mioc.-Plioc., Mediterranean; seagrasses & salinity crisis; shark predation; 29-31.)
Pliocene
  x 1982c Domning, D.P. (Metaxytherium serresii; Sahabi, Libya; 29-32.)

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