APPENDIX 4. Classification and Synonymy of the Sirenia and ...

Metaxytherium allisoni (Kilmer) Domning, 1971, Geol. Soc. Amer. Abstrs. Progs. 3(2): 110,
Feb. 1971.
Dioplotherium allisoni (Kilmer) Domning, 1978, Univ. Calif. Publ. Geol. Sci. 118: 5, Sept. 8,
1978.
Holotype. - UCMP 47250, incomplete mandible and other fragments.
Type Locality. - UCMP loc. V5734, La Purísima, Baja California Sur, Mexico.
Formation. - Ysidro Formation, Ysidro Sandstone Member.
Age. - Early Miocene (Vaquerosian-Temblorian).
Domningia Thewissen and Bajpai, 2009
Domningia Thewissen and Bajpai, 2009, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 54(1): 7, Mar. 2009.
[Type, by original designation: D. sodhae Thewissen and Bajpai.]
Domningia sodhae Thewissen and Bajpai, 2009
Domningia sodhae Thewissen and Bajpai, 2009, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 54(1): 7, Mar.
2009.
Holotype. – IITR-SB 3091, complete adult skull with left and right dentaries. ―The type
specimen is in the collections of the ‗Fossil Park‘ in the village Vithon, Taluka Nakhatrana,
District Kutch, State of Gujarat, India. The ‗Fossil Park‘ is a small, private museum run by
Mohan Singh Sodha, who collected the specimen. As this museum does not keep a catalogue, the
specimen has been entered in the catalogue of the Vertebrate Palaeontology Laboratory, Indian
Institute of Technology, Roorkee, and casts of the specimen have been deposited with the
institutions of the authors [i.e., Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, Rootstown,
Ohio, USA, and IIT, Roorkee, India]. Vertebrae were associated with the holotype, but only
some of these can be positively identified among the large amount of uncatalogued sirenian
material in this collection.‖ (Thewissen and Bajpai, 2009: 8)
Type Locality. – Nangia, Kutch, India; in a dry tributary of the Nithi River crossing the
road between the villages of Nangia and Sujapur 500 m NW of Nangia; 23° 22.337‘ N, 68°
54.866‘ E.
Formation. – Yellow sandstone overlying a sandstone rich in Turritella and oysters; part
of the Khari Nadi Formation.
Age. – Generally presumed to be Lower Miocene (Aquitanian).
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Daryl P. Domning, Bibliography and Index of the Sirenia and Desmostylia,
http://www.sirenian.org/biblio/
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