Bibliography Record

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Savage, Robert Joseph Gay; Tewari, B. S. (detail)
   
1977
A new sirenian from Kutch, India.
Jour. Pal. Soc. India (Jurij Alexandrovich Orlov Memorial Number) 20: 216-218. 3 figs.
–Reports Metaxytherium sp. indet. from the Lower Miocene, with new reports of sirs. from the Eocene of Somali and India and the Miocene of Iran, and a review of all fossil sir. occurrences in the Indian Ocean area. A revised and expanded version of this paper (Tewari et al., 1977) changes the age assignment of the specimen described here to Upper Oligocene.

Related Index Records (11)

Africa
(SEE ALSO: Indian Ocean; Egypt; Madagascar; Red Sea)
  x 1977 Savage & Tewari (indeterminate sirs.; Middle Eoc., Somali; 218.)

Asia
(SEE ALSO: Arctic Region; Bering Sea; China; East Indies; Indian Ocean; India; Japan; Red Sea; Russia; Sakhalin; Sri Lanka; Taiwan)
  x 1977 Savage & Tewari (indeterminate sirs.; Mioc., Iran; 218.)

Eocene
  x 1977 Savage & Tewari (indeterminate sir.; Somali, India; 218.)

Halianassa von Meyer, 1838
(= Halitherium, in part; Metaxytherium, in part; Protosiren, in part)
  x 1977 Savage & Tewari (syn. of Metaxytherium; m216.)

Halitherium Kaup, 1838
  x 1977 Savage & Tewari (Madagascar specimen considered Dugongidae indet.; 217.)

India
(SEE ALSO: Indian Ocean)
  x 1977 Savage & Tewari (Metaxytherium, Mioc.; indeterminate sir., Eoc.; Kutch; 216-218.)

Indian Ocean
(SEE ALSO: Africa; Asia; Australia; East Indies; India; Madagascar; Red Sea; Sri Lanka)
  x 1977 Savage & Tewari (fossil sirs.; 216-218.)

Indosiren von Koenigswald, 1952
  x 1977 Savage & Tewari (considered "sirenian indeterminate"; 217.)

Metaxytherium de Christol, 1840
  x 1977 Savage & Tewari (Mioc., India; 216-218.)

Miocene
  x 1977 Savage & Tewari (Metaxytherium, India; indeterminate sirs., Iran & elsewhere in Indian Ocean region; 216-218.)

Miodugong brevicranius Deraniyagala, 1969
  x 1977 Savage & Tewari (considered "Metaxytherium sp. indet."; 217.)


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