Bibliography Record

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 Lydekker, Richard (detail)
   
1892
On a remarkable sirenian jaw from the Oligocene of Italy, and its bearing on the evolution of the Sirenia.
Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1892(1): 77-83. 2 figs. June 1892 (read Feb. 2, 1892).
–Discusses a specimen [probably of Late Eocene age] which he assigns to Halitherium veronense, while referring the latter species to Prorastomus and calling the new combination Prorastoma veronense. Concludes that the Sirenia are descended from selenodont artiodactyls.

Related Index Records (13)

Halitherium angustifrons de Zigno, 1875
(= Prototherium veronense)
  x 1892 Lydekker, R. (m78.)
Halitherium bellunense de Zigno, 1875
  x 1892 Lydekker, R. (teeth; 78.)
Halitherium curvidens de Zigno, 1875
(= Prototherium veronense)
  x 1892 Lydekker, R. (m78.)
Halitherium schinzii (Kaup, 1838) Kaup, 1855
  x 1892 Lydekker, R. (comp. w/ H. bellunense & H. veronense; 78, 81-83.)
Halitherium veronense de Zigno, 1875
(= Prototherium veronense)
  x 1892 Lydekker, R. (referred to Prorastomus; 78, 81-83.)
Italy
  x 1892 Lydekker, R. ("Prorastoma veronense"; 77-78.)
Manatus Brünnich, 1771
(= Trichechus)
  x 1892 Lydekker, R. (origin of tooth pattern; m82.)
Metaxytherium de Christol, 1840
  x 1892 Lydekker, R. (syn. of Halitherium; 78.)
Oligocene
  x 1892 Lydekker, R. (Prorastoma veronense; [actually Eoc.] Italy; 77-78.)
Phylogeny and Affinities of the Sirenia and/or Desmostylia
(SEE ALSO under species)
  x 1892 Lydekker, R. (sirs. derived from artiodactyls; 82.)
Prorastoma Lydekker, 1892
(= Prorastomus)
  x * 1892 Lydekker, R. (unjustified emendation of Prorastomus Owen; 83.)
Prorastoma veronense (de Zigno, 1875) Lydekker, 1892
(= Prototherium veronense)
  x * 1892 Lydekker, R. (n.comb.; 77-83.)
Prorastomus sirenoides Owen, 1855
  x 1892 Lydekker, R. (comp. w/ P. veronense; 82-83.)

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