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Osborn, Henry Fairfield (detail)
   
1902a
A remarkable new mammal from Japan. Its relationship to the Californian genus Desmostylus, Marsh.
Science 16(409): 713-714. Oct. 31, 1902.
–Discusses the similarities between the Japanese and American Desmostylus, and lists some American specimens. In Yoshiwara & Iwasaki (1902), Osborn considered the Japanese specimen a proboscidean; he now concedes that Desmostylus may be either a proboscidean or a sirenian.

Related Index Records (7)

California
  x D 1902a Osborn, H.F. (finds of Desmostylus; 713-714.)

Desmostylus hesperus Marsh, 1888
  x D 1902a Osborn, H.F. (comp. w/ Japanese Desmostylus; 713-714.)

Halicore Illiger, 1811
(= Dugong)
  x 1902a Osborn, H.F. (m714.)

Japan
(SEE ALSO: Sakhalin)
  x D 1902a Osborn, H.F. (Desmostylus; discussion of original Japanese discovery; 713-714.)

Metaxytherium de Christol, 1840
  x 1902a Osborn, H.F. (m714.)

Oregon
  x D 1902a Osborn, H.F. (Desmostylus; 714.)

Phylogeny and Affinities of the Sirenia and/or Desmostylia
(SEE ALSO under species)
  x D 1902a Osborn, H.F. (Desmostylus considered either proboscidean or sir.; 713.)


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