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 Domning, Daryl Paul; Thomas, Herbert (detail)
   
1987
Metaxytherium serresii (Mammalia: Sirenia) from the Early Pliocene of Libya and France: a reevaluation of its morphology, phyletic position, and biostratigraphic and paleoecological significance. In: N. T. Boaz, A. El-Arnauti, A. W. Gaziry, J. de Heinzelin, & D. D. Boaz (eds.), Neogene paleontology and geology of Sahabi.
New York, Alan R. Liss (xv + 401 pp.): 205-232. 12 tabs. 13 figs.
–Arabic, French, and German summs. Reviews the history of the name Metaxytherium serresii (206-207); summarizes the record of Metaxytherium in Europe (207-209); describes the material of M. serresii from Sahabi, Libya (209-223); presents a cladistic analysis of European Halitherium and Metaxytherium (223-228); and reviews the stratigraphic context of M. serresii at Montpellier, France (228-229). Concludes that H. christolii, M. krahuletzi, M. medium, M. serresii, and M. forestii form a single lineage, probably derived from H. schinzii. The small size of M. serresii is attributed to dwarfing caused by poor nutrition, due in turn to reduced diversity, quality, and/or quantity of seagrasses in the post-Messinian Mediterranean.

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Africa
(SEE ALSO: Indian Ocean; Egypt; Madagascar; Red Sea)
  x * 1987 Domning & Thomas (Metaxytherium serresii, Plioc., Sahabi, Libya, 209, 230; Metaxytherium sp., Mioc., Sahabi, 209.)
Anomotherium Siegfried, 1965
  x 1987 Domning & Thomas (probably related to Miosiren, not Metaxytherium; 207.)
Cheirotherium Bruno, 1839 (non Kaup, 1835)
(= Metaxytherium)
  x 1987 Domning & Thomas (syn. of Metaxytherium; 208-209.)
Cheirotherium subapenninum Bruno, 1839
(= Metaxytherium subapenninum)
  x 1987 Domning & Thomas (syn. of Metaxytherium subapenninum; m208.)
Dugong Lacépède, 1799
  x 1987 Domning & Thomas (possible sexual dimorphism in ischium; 219.)
Dusisiren jordani (Kellogg, 1925) Domning, 1978
  x 1987 Domning & Thomas (comp. w/ Metaxytherium serresii; 216, 222.)
Eotheroides libycum (Andrews, 1902) Reinhart, 1951
(= Eosiren libyca)
  x 1987 Domning & Thomas (comp. w/ Halitherium & Metaxytherium; 223-224.)
Felsinotherium Capellini, 1872
(= Metaxytherium)
  x 1987 Domning & Thomas (syn. of Metaxytherium; 207.)
Felsinotherium serresii (Gervais, 1849) de Zigno, 1878
(= Metaxytherium serresii)
  x 1987 Domning & Thomas (syn. of Metaxytherium serresii; 207, 210.)
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 1987 Domning & Thomas (seagrasses in the post-Messinian [Plioc.] Mediterranean; 229-230.)
France
  x * 1987 Domning & Thomas (Metaxytherium serresii; Plioc., Montpellier; 206, 228-229.)
Halianassa von Meyer, 1838
(= Halitherium, in part; Metaxytherium, in part; Protosiren, in part)
  x 1987 Domning & Thomas (H. Studer a syn. of Metaxytherium; 207.)
Halianassa studeri von Meyer, 1838
(= Halitherium schinzii, in part; Metaxytherium krahuletzi and M. medium, in part; Protosiren minima, in part)
  x 1987 Domning & Thomas (H. studeri sensu Studer a ?syn. of Metaxytherium krahuletzi; 208, 223.)
Halicore cuvierii de Christol, 1832
(= Metaxytherium medium, in part; Metaxytherium serresii, in part; Protosiren minima, in part)
  x 1987 Domning & Thomas (syn. of Metaxytherium medium; 206-207, 210.)
Halicore medius [sic] (Desmarest, 1822) de Serres, 1838
(= Metaxytherium serresii, not M. medium)
  x 1987 Domning & Thomas (syn. of Metaxytherium serresii; 210.)
Halitherium abeli Spillmann, 1959
(= Halitherium christolii)
  x 1987 Domning & Thomas (syn. of H. christolii; 207, 225, 227.)
Halitherium bellunense de Zigno, 1875
  x 1987 Domning & Thomas (probably not Halitherium; 207.)
Halitherium christolii Fitzinger, 1842
  x 1987 Domning & Thomas (considered ancestral to Metaxytherium; 207-208, 220-227.)
Halitherium pergense (Toula, 1899) Spillmann, 1959
(= Halitherium christolii)
  x 1987 Domning & Thomas (syn. of H. christolii; 207.)
Halitherium schinzii (Kaup, 1838) Kaup, 1855
  x 1987 Domning & Thomas (?ancestral to Metaxytherium; 207, 220-227.)
Halitherium serresii Gervais, 1847
  x 1987 Domning & Thomas (syn. of Metaxytherium serresii; 207, 210.)
Halysiren Kretzoi, 1941
(= Metaxytherium)
  x 1987 Domning & Thomas (syn. of Metaxytherium; 208-209.)
Haplosiren leganyii Kretzoi, 1951
(= Metaxytherium medium?)
  x 1987 Domning & Thomas (?syn. of Metaxytherium medium; 208, 215, 229.)
Hippopotamus medius Desmarest, 1822
(= Metaxytherium medium)
  1987 Domning & Thomas (syn. of Metaxytherium medium; 206.)
Italy
  x 1987 Domning & Thomas (Metaxytherium forestii; Plioc.; 208, 220-221.)
Manatus cuvieri (de Christol, 1832) de Blainville, 1844
(= Metaxytherium medium, in part; Metaxytherium serresii, in part)
  x 1987 Domning & Thomas (syn. of Metaxytherium serresii; 210.)
Mediterranean Sea
(SEE ALSO: Africa; Malta; other countries bordering the Mediterranean)
  x 1987 Domning & Thomas (Messinian [Late Mioc.] salinity crisis & sir. paleoecology; 229-230.)
Metaxytherium de Christol, 1840
  x * 1987 Domning & Thomas (senior syn. of Felsinotherium, 207; descent from Halitherium, 207-208, 223-227.)
Metaxytherium beaumonti de Christol in de Blainville, 1844
(nomen dubium)
  x 1987 Domning & Thomas (considered nomen dubium; 206, 208.)
Metaxytherium cordieri de Christol in de Blainville, 1844
(= Metaxytherium medium)
  x 1987 Domning & Thomas (syn. of M. medium; 206.)
Metaxytherium cuvierii (de Christol, 1832) de Christol in de Blainville, 1844
(= Metaxytherium medium)
  x 1987 Domning & Thomas (syn. of M. medium; 206-208, 210, 230.)
Metaxytherium floridanum Hay, 1922
  x 1987 Domning & Thomas (comp. w/ M. serresii; 213.)
Metaxytherium forestii (Capellini, 1872) Fondi and Pacini, 1974
(= Metaxytherium subapenninum)
  x * 1987 Domning & Thomas (phylogeny; comp. w/ M. serresii; 208-209, 211-217, 220-230.)
Metaxytherium gastaldi (de Zigno, 1878) Fondi and Pacini, 1974
(= Metaxytherium subapenninum)
  x 1987 Domning & Thomas (syn. of M. forestii; 208, 223.)
Metaxytherium gervaisi (Capellini, 1872) Fondi and Pacini, 1974
(= Metaxytherium subapenninum)
  x 1987 Domning & Thomas (syn. of M. forestii; 208.)
Metaxytherium krahuletzi Depéret, 1895
  x * 1987 Domning & Thomas (phylogeny; comp. w/ M. serresii; 207-208, 220-227, 229.)
Metaxytherium lovisati Capellini, 1886
(nomen dubium)
  x 1987 Domning & Thomas (?syn. of M. medium; 208.)
Metaxytherium medium (Desmarest, 1822) Hooijer, 1952
  x * 1987 Domning & Thomas (phylogeny; comp. w/ M. serresii; 206-209, 212-218, 220-230.)
Metaxytherium meyeri Abel, 1904
(nomen dubium)
  x 1987 Domning & Thomas (considered nomen dubium; 207-208.)
Metaxytherium serresii (Gervais, 1849) Depéret, 1895
  x * 1987 Domning & Thomas (Plioc., Libya & France; morphology, systematics, phylogeny, & paleoecology; 205-232.)
Metaxytherium subapenninum (Bruno, 1839) Fondi and Pacini, 1974
  x 1987 Domning & Thomas (considered nomen dubium; 208-209.)
Miocene
  x 1987 Domning & Thomas (Metaxytherium, Europe, review, 206-208; Metaxytherium sp., Libya, 209.)
Miosiren Dollo, 1889
  x 1987 Domning & Thomas (probably related to Anomotherium; 207.)
Natural Enemies
(SEE ALSO: Natural Death or Injury)
  x 1987 Domning & Thomas (Metaxytherium serresii; Plioc., Libya; bones scarred by sharks; 209.)
Paleoecology and Taphonomy
  x 1987 Domning & Thomas (Metaxytherium serresii; Plioc., Libya; taphonomy, 209; paleoecology of post-Messinian Mediterranean, 229-230.)
Pliocene
  x * 1987 Domning & Thomas (Metaxytherium forestii, Italy, 208, 220-221; M. serresii, Libya & France, 209-230.)
Pontotherium Kaup, 1840
(= Metaxytherium)
  x 1987 Domning & Thomas (syn. of Metaxytherium; 208-209.)
Thalattosiren Sickenberg, 1928
(= Metaxytherium)
  x 1987 Domning & Thomas (comp. w/ Haplosiren, 208; w/ Metaxytherium, 223.)
Thalattosiren studeri (von Meyer, 1838) Thenius, 1952
(= Metaxytherium krahuletzi)
  x 1987 Domning & Thomas (m208.)

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