Mammalia - Sirenia - Dugongidae
Alternative combinations: Metaxitherium lovisati, Metaxytherium lovisatoi
Full reference: G. Capellini. 1886. Sopra resti di un isrenio fossile (Metaxytherium lovisati, Cap.) Raccolti a Monte Fiocca Presso Sassari in Sardegna. Memoria della Reale Accademia delle Scienze dell'Instituto di Bologna, series IV 7:39-53
Belongs to Metaxytherium according to D. P. Domning 1996
See also Abel 1904, Fondi and Pacini 1974, Trouessart 1898 and Trouessart 1904
Sister taxa: Felsinotherium gunteri, Metaxytherium albifontanum, Metaxytherium aquitaniae, Metaxytherium arctodites, Metaxytherium beaumontii, Metaxytherium crataegense, Metaxytherium floridanum, Metaxytherium krahuletzi, Metaxytherium medium, Metaxytherium meyeri, Metaxytherium riveroi, Metaxytherium serresii, Metaxytherium subapenninum
Type specimen: Its type locality is Monte Fiocca, which is in a Tortonian marine horizon in the Mores Formation of Italy
Ecology: aquatic herbivore
Distribution: found only at Monte Fiocca
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