| Source Data | |
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| Rank | species |
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| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Sirenia : Dugongidae : Dioplotherium : Dioplotherium manigaulti |
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| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Sirenia : Dugongidae : Dioplotherium : Dioplotherium manigaulti |
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| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted |
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Classification
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| Generic Name | Dioplotherium |
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| Scientific Name | Dioplotherium manigaulti (Cope, 1883) |
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| Opinions (PBDB) | | Name | Rank | Opinion | Evidence | Author |
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| Dioplotherium manigaulti | species | belongs to Dioplotherium | stated without evidence | Cope, 1883 | | Dioplotherium manigaulti | species | belongs to Metaxytherium | stated without evidence | Allen, 1926 | | Dioplotherium manigaulti | species | belongs to Dioplotherium | stated without evidence | Domning, 1989 | | Dioplotherium manigaulti | species | belongs to Dioplotherium | stated with evidence | Domning, 1996 |
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| Status (PBDB) | extinct |
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| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 1 |
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| First Recorded Appearance | 28.1 - 23.0 Ma
Cenozoic |
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| Last Recorded Appearance | 16.0 - 13.8 Ma
Miocene |
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| Environment | marine (based on Sirenia) |
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| Motility | actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes) |
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| Diet | herbivore (based on Dugongidae) |
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| Reproduction | viviparous (based on Sirenia) |
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| Taphonomy | phosphatic (based on Vertebrata) |
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| Primary Reference (PBDB) | E. D. Cope. 1883. On a new extinct genus of Sirenia, from South Carolina. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 1883:52-54 |
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| Cope E. D. On a new extinct genus of Sirenia, from South Carolina, Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 1883, 52-54 |
| Trouessart E. L. , Catalogus mammalium tam viventium quam fossilum 5, 665-1264 |
| Hay O. P. (1902) , Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 179, 1-868 |
| Trouessart E. L. (1904) , Catalogus Mammalium Tam Viventium Quam Fossilium, Fourth Edition, 1-929 |
| Allen G. M. (1926) Fossil mammals from South Carolina, Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 67 14, 447-467 |
| Hay O. P. (1930) Second Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America, Carnegie Institution of Washington 390 II, 1-1074 |
| Fondi R., Pacini P. (1974) Njuovi resti di Sirenide dal Pliocene Antico della provincia di Siena, Palaeontographia Italica 67, 37-53 |
| Domning D. P. (1989) Fossil Sirenia of the West Atlantic and Caribbean Region. II. Dioplotherium manigaulti Cope, 1883, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 9 4, 415-428 |
| Domning D. P. (1996) Bibliography and Index of the Sirenia and Desmostylia, Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 80, 1-611 |
| Domning D. P. (2008) Sirenia, Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America II, 629-638 |
| Voss M. (2014) On the invalidity of Halitherium schinzii Kaup, 1838 (Mammalia, Sirenia), with comments on systematic consequences, Zoosystematics and Evolution 90 1, 87-93 doi:10.3897/zse.90.7421 |
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