Paleoparadoxia
| Paleoparadoxia Temporal range:
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| Paleoparadoxia tabatai | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | †Desmostylia |
| Family: | † Paleoparadoxiidae
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| Genus: | †Paleoparadoxia Reinhart 1959[1] |
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| †Paleoparadoxia tabatai | |
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P. media Inuzuka 2005[2] | |
Paleoparadoxia ("ancient paradox") is a
.Description
Paleoparadoxia is thought to have fed primarily on
sirenians, spending most of their lives walking across the sea bottom like marine hippos.[4] Studies on its habitat preference show that it favoured deep, offshore waters.[5]
Size estimates of P. tabatai vary, with the Tsuyama specimen measuring 215 cm (7.05 ft) in length, 80 cm (2.6 ft) in height, and 582 kg (1,283 lb) in body mass, and the other specimens measuring 1,048 kg (2,310 lb) and 3.2 metric tons (3.5 short tons) in body mass.[6]
Tokunaga 1939 named the genus Cornwallius but Reinhart 1959 synonymized it as a species of Paleoparadoxia.[7]
See also
References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Paleoparadoxia.
- ^ Paleoparadoxia in the Paleobiology Database. Retrieved March 2013.
- ^ Paleoparadoxia media in the Paleobiology Database. Retrieved March 2013.
- ^ "Yoshiwara, Shigeyasu". Sirenia.org. Archived from the original on October 13, 2018. Retrieved 11 March 2013.
- ^ Hayashi et al. 2013
- ISSN 0031-0182.
- ^ Inuzuka, N. (1996). Body size and mass estimates of desmostylians(Mammalia). The Journal of the Geological Society of Japan, 102(9), 816–819. https://doi.org/10.5575/geosoc.102.816
- ^ "OPINION 2232 (Case 3384) Cornwallius tabatai Tokunaga, 1939 (currently Paleoparadoxia tabatai; Mammalia, Desmostylia): proposed designation of a neotype not accepted". ICZN. Retrieved 11 March 2013.
Bibliography
- Clark, J. M. (1991). "A new early Miocene species of Paleoparadoxia (Mammalia: Desmostylia) from California". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 11 (4): 490–508. OCLC 4908959659.
- Domning, D. P.; Barnes, L. G. (2007). "A new name for the 'Stanford Skeleton' of Paleoparadoxia (Mammalia, Desmostylia)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 27 (3): 748–751. S2CID 86342777.
- Hayashi, Shoji; Houssaye, Alexandra; Nakajima, Yasuhisa; Chiba, Kentaro; Ando, Tatsuro; Sawamura, Hiroshi; Inuzuka, Norihisa; Kaneko, Naotomo; Osaki, Tomohiro (2013). "Bone Inner Structure Suggests Increasing Aquatic Adaptations in Desmostylia (Mammalia, Afrotheria)". PLOS ONE. 8 (4): e59146. PMID 23565143.
- Inuzuka, Norihisa (2005). "The Stanford Skeleton of Paleoparadoxia (Mammalia: Desmostylia)". Bulletin of the Ashoro Museum of Paleontology. 3: 3–110.
- Kemp, Tom S. (2005). The Origin and Evolution of Mammals. Oxford University Press. OCLC 56652579.
- Reinhart, Roy Herbert (1959). "A review of the Sirenia and Desmostylia". University of California Publications in Geological Sciences. 36 (1): 1–146. OCLC 3474601.
- Tokunaga, Shigeyasu (1939). "A new fossil mammal belonging to the Desmostylidae". Jubilee publication commemorating Prof. H. Yabe, M.I.A. sixtieth birthday. Vol. 1. Sendai (Japan): Tohoku Imperial University, Inst. Geol. Pal. pp. 289–299. Retrieved 11 March 2013.
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