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Filhol, Henri (detail)
   
1878
Note sur la découverte d'un nouveau mammifère marin (Manatus coulombi) en Afrique, dans les carrières de Mokattam près du Caire.
Bull. Soc. Philomathique Paris (7)2: 124-125. Read Mar. 23, 1878.
–Describes a new Eocene species, based on 3 lower teeth. It is thought to resemble the modern manatee too closely to have belonged to a form as primitive as "Eotherium" aegyptiacum.

Related Index Records (5)

Egypt
(SEE ALSO: Red Sea)
  x 1878 Filhol, H. (Manatus Coulombi, n.sp.; Eoc.; 124-125.)

Eocene
  x 1878 Filhol, H. (Manatus Coulombi, n.sp.; Egypt; 124-125.)

Eotherium aegyptiacum Owen, 1875
(= Eotheroides aegyptiacum)
  x 1878 Filhol, H. (comp. w/ Manatus Coulombi; 124-125.)

Manatus australis Retzius, 1794
(= Trichechus manatus, in part; Trichechus senegalensis, in part; also used by many authors for T. inunguis)
  x 1878 Filhol, H. (comp. w/ M. Coulombi; 125.)

Manatus coulombi Filhol, 1878
(= Eotheroides aegyptiacum)
  x * 1878 Filhol, H. (n.sp.; Eoc., Egypt; 124-125.)


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