Desmostylus[1] is an extinct genus of herbivorous mammal of the family Desmostylidae living from the Chattian stage of the Late Oligocene subepoch through the Late Miocene subepoch (28.4 mya–7.250 Mya) and in existence for approximately 21.2 million years.[2]
^"bound pillar", from Greek δεσμός (desmos), bond, and στῦλος (stulos), pillar, referring to the shape of the molars.
^Desmostylus in the Paleobiology Database. Retrieved March 2013.
Desmostylus is an extinct genus of herbivorous mammal of the family Desmostylidae living from the Chattian stage of the Late Oligocene subepoch through...
bunodont in primitive genera, but hypsodont in later genera such as Desmostylus, which has many supernumerary cusps. In the postcrania, the clavicle...
Matsui, K.; Pyenson, N. D. (2023). "New evidence for the antiquity of Desmostylus (Desmostylia) from the Skooner Gulch Formation of California". Royal...
calf Ocepeia, a basal species Arsinoitherium, a rhino-like embrithopod Desmostylus, a member of desmostylia, the only extinct order of marine mammals. Each...
Reinhart 1959 synonymized it as a species of Paleoparadoxia. Behemotops Desmostylus Tethytheria Paleontology portal Wikimedia Commons has media related to...
(岩崎重三) on the fossil skull to which in 1914 they would give the name Desmostylus japonicus was the first description of a Japanese Miocene mammal.: 314 ...
Megalohyrax and Titanohyrax. The largest known desmostylian was a species of Desmostylus, with skull length of 81.8 cm (32.2 in) and comparable in size to the...
(2) the adult dentition was not delayed in their specimen, unlike in Desmostylus and other Afrotheria, and they concluded that (1) Desmostylidae and Paleoparadoxiidae...
concluded that the adult dentition was not delayed in Behemotops, unlike Desmostylus and other Afrotheria, and that delayed dentition can not be the most...
includes replicas of local fossil finds, of Nipponosaurus sachalinensis and Desmostylus hesperus; taxidermied representatives of species featured in the Red...
differs from Desmostylus in the arrangement of the major molar cusps and its smaller size, but it has been synonymized with Desmostylus by most authors...
0°W / 48.0; -115.0). Cornwallius was named by Hay 1923. Its type is Desmostylus sookensis, named by Cornwall 1922 and recombined to Cornwallius sookensis...
recovered long bones lack inner cavities, like in Paleoparadoxia and Desmostylus, and the trabecular pattern is different from that in Behemotops. Hayashi...
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