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 Domning, Daryl Paul (detail)
   
1989d
Fossil Sirenia of the West Atlantic and Caribbean region. III. Xenosiren yucateca, gen. et sp. nov.
Jour. Vert. Pal. 9(4): 429-437. 1 tab. 7 figs. Dec. 19, 1989.
–Describes a partial skull from the Upper Miocene or Lower Pliocene of Yucatan, Mexico; it is considered a rytiodontine and a direct descendant of Dioplotherium. Its cranial specializations are interpreted as adaptations for uprooting seagrass rhizomes using both jaws and tusks.
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Related Index Records (17)

Behavior, Ingestive
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Epimeletic; Behavior, Et-epimeletic; Food; Mastication; Milk)
  x 1989d Domning, D.P. (Xenosiren yucateca; use of jaws & tusks; 435-436.)
Dioplotherium allisoni (Kilmer, 1965) Domning, 1978
  x 1989d Domning, D.P. (comp. w/ Xenosiren yucateca; 435.)
Dioplotherium manigaulti Cope, 1883
  x 1989d Domning, D.P. (comp. w/ Xenosiren yucateca; 429-431, 434-436.)
Dugong Lacépède, 1799
  x 1989d Domning, D.P. (comp. w/ Xenosiren yucateca; 435.)
Halitherium olseni Reinhart, 1976
(= Crenatosiren olseni)
  x 1989d Domning, D.P. (m435.)
Hydrodamalis Retzius, 1794
  x 1989d Domning, D.P. (comp. w/ Xenosiren yucateca; 435-436.)
Mastication
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Ingestive)
  x 1989d Domning, D.P. (Xenosiren yucateca; 435-436.)
Metaxytherium de Christol, 1840
  x 1989d Domning, D.P. (comp. w/ Xenosiren yucateca; 432, 435-436.)
Mexico
(SEE ALSO: Baja California; Central America)
  x * 1989d Domning, D.P. (Xenosiren yucateca, n.gen.n.sp.; Mioc. or Plioc., Yucatan; 429-430.)
Miocene
  x 1989d Domning, D.P. (Xenosiren yucateca, n.gen.n.sp.; ?Mioc., Mexico; 430.)
Paleoecology and Taphonomy
  x 1989d Domning, D.P. (rytiodontines; use of tusks; 435-436.)
Phylogeny and Affinities of the Sirenia and/or Desmostylia
(SEE ALSO under species)
  x 1989d Domning, D.P. (Rytiodontinae; 435.)
Pliocene
  x 1989d Domning, D.P. (Xenosiren yucateca, n.gen.n.sp.; ?Plioc., Mexico; 430.)
Rytiodus Lartet, 1866
(Spelled Rhytiodus by Delfortrie, 1872, and many later authors; this is an unjustified emendation.)
  x 1989d Domning, D.P. (comp. w/ Xenosiren yucateca; 434-436.)
Trichechus manatus latirostris (Harlan, 1824) Hatt, 1934
  x 1989d Domning, D.P. (comp. w/ Xenosiren yucateca; 430.)
Xenosiren Domning, 1989
  x * 1989d Domning, D.P. (n.gen.; Mioc. or Plioc., Mexico; 429-437.)
Xenosiren yucateca Domning, 1989
  x * 1989d Domning, D.P. (n.gen.n.sp.; Mioc. or Plioc., Mexico; 429-437.)

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