Bell, Susan K.
1 publication
| McKenna, Malcolm Carnegie; Bell, Susan K. (detail) | |
| 1997 | Classification of mammals above the species level. New York, Columbia Univ. Press: xii + 631. 1 fig. —Introduces a new, cladistically-based classification in which the Sirenia and Desmostylia are radically demoted in taxonomic rank. A new Order Uranotheria includes the suborders Hyracoidea, Embrithopoda, and Tethytheria; the latter includes the infraorders Sirenia and Behemota (new); and the Behemota comprises the parvorders Desmostylia and Proboscidea (490-497). |
Bibliography and Index of the Sirenia and Desmostylia 