Paleoparadoxia Reinhart 1959 (desmostylian)

Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Paleoparadoxiidae

Full reference: R. H. Reinhart. 1959. A review of the Sirenia and Desmostylia. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 36(1):1-146

Parent taxon: Paleoparadoxiidae according to K. Matsui and T. Tsuihiji 2019

See also Barnes 2013, Beatty 2009, Berta 2017, Boessenecker 2011, Carroll 1988, Cooper et al. 2014, Domning 1996, Domning 2008, Domning 2018, Domning and Barnes 2007, Domning et al. 1986, Fukuchi and Suzuki 2014, Hasegawa et al. 2014, Hasegawa and Kimura 2008, Inuzuka 2000, Inuzuka et al. 1995, Inuzuka et al. 2006, Matsui 2017, Matsui and Kawabe 2015, Matsui et al. 2018, McKenna and Bell 1997, Reinhart 1959, Saegusa 2002, Sepkoski 2002 and Shikama 1966

Sister taxa: Archaeoparadoxia, Behemotopsinae, Neoparadoxia, Paleoparadoxiinae

Subtaxa: Paleoparadoxia media Paleoparadoxia tabatai

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Type: Archaeoparadoxia weltoni

Ecology: amphibious herbivore

Distribution:

• Miocene of Japan (37 collections), Mexico (1), United States (12: California)

Total: 50 collections including 53 occurrences

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