Pirlot, Paul

2 publications

Kamiya, Toshiro; Pirlot, Paul; Hasegawa, Yoshikazu (detail)
1985Comparative brain morphology of miocene [sic] and recent sirenians.
Fortschritte der Zool. 30: 541-544. 1 tab. 1 fig.
—The Mioc. "sirenian" compared with the Recent dugong is actually Paleoparadoxia tabatai.
Pirlot, Paul; Kamiya, Toshiro (detail)
1985Qualitative and quantitative brain morphology in the sirenian Dugong dugong Erxl.
Zs. Zool. Syst. Evol.-Forsch. 23(2): 147-155. 3 tabs. 5 figs.
—German summ. Describes the gross features, biometrics, and encephalization of the dugong brain, and makes crude comparisons of its "evolutionary level" with those of other mammals (especially dolphins). Concludes that the dugong exhibits an "average degree" of evolutionary progression.