Bibliography Record

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Domning, Daryl Paul (detail)
   
1997a
Sirenia. Chap. 23 in: R. F. Kay, R. H. Madden, R. L. Cifelli, & J. J. Flynn (eds.), Vertebrate paleontology in the Neotropics: the Miocene fauna of La Venta, Colombia.
Washington & London, Smithsonian Inst. Press (xv + 592): 383-391. 4 figs.
–Spanish summ. Describes new sir. specimens from the Middle Miocene of Colombia, referring all the La Venta specimens (including the holotype of Metaxytherium ortegense Kellogg, 1966) to Potamosiren magdalenensis Reinhart, 1951. A Late Miocene tooth from the Río Acre (Brazil-Peru border) described by Frailey (1986) is interpreted as a fourth lower deciduous premolar of Ribodon. Potamosiren is considered ancestral to all other trichechines, and its thick molar enamel is interpreted as an adaptation to eating soft but increasingly abrasive aquatic plants.

Related Index Records (14)

Colombia
  x * 1997a Domning, D.P. (Potamosiren magdalenensis; Middle Mioc., La Venta; 383-391.)

Felsinotherium ortegense Kellogg, 1966
(= Potamosiren magdalenensis)
  x 1997a Domning, D.P. (syn. of Potamosiren magdalenensis; 383-384.)

Metaxytherium calvertense Kellogg, 1966
(= Metaxytherium crataegense)
  x 1997a Domning, D.P. (comp. w/ Potamosiren magdalenensis; m388.)

Metaxytherium floridanum Hay, 1922
  x 1997a Domning, D.P. (comp. w/ Potamosiren magdalenensis; 388-390.)

Metaxytherium ortegense Kellogg, 1966
(= Potamosiren magdalenensis)
  x * 1997a Domning, D.P. (synonymized w/ Potamosiren magdalenensis; 383, 385-386, 388-391.)

Metaxytherium serresii (Gervais, 1849) Depéret, 1895
  x 1997a Domning, D.P. (comp. w/ Potamosiren magdalenensis; m389.)

Miocene
  x 1997a Domning, D.P. (Potamosiren magdalenensis; Middle Mioc., La Venta, Colombia; 383-391.)

Paleoecology and Taphonomy
  x 1997a Domning, D.P. (Potamosiren magdalenensis; Mioc., Colombia; 390-391.)

Potamosiren magdalenensis Reinhart, 1951
  x * 1997a Domning, D.P. (revision & new material; 383-391.)

Ribodon limbatus Ameghino, 1883
  x 1997a Domning, D.P. (comp. w/ Potamosiren magdalenensis; 385, 388-390.)

Ribodon magdalenensis (Reinhart, 1951) Marshall, Hoffstetter, & Pascual, 1983
(= Potamosiren magdalenensis)
  x 1997a Domning, D.P. (syn. of Potamosiren magdalenensis; 384.)

Tooth Replacement
  x 1997a Domning, D.P. (evolution in trichechids; 389-391.)

Trichechinae (Gill, 1872 [1821]) Domning, 1994
(subfamily)
  x 1997a Domning, D.P. (fossil record & evolution; 383-391.)

Trichechus Linnaeus, 1758
  x 1997a Domning, D.P. (comp. w/ Potamosiren magdalenensis; 389-390.)


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