Deraniyagala, Paulus Edward Pieris

9 publications

Deraniyagala, Paulus Edward Pieris (detail)
1933Cured marine products of Ceylon.
Bull. Ceylon Fish., Sect. C, 1933: 55.
—Notes that considerable quantities of dugong meat were exported in the past century.
Deraniyagala, Paulus Edward Pieris (detail)
1948Some scientific results of two visits to Africa.
Spolia Zeylanica 25(2): 1-42. 4 figs. 14 pls. Dec. 30, 1948.
—Mentions "sirenians" from the Lower Oligocene of the Fayum, Egypt (15), and lists four Eosiren specimens from the Fayum (16) collected by the author on the University of California African Expedition led by Wendell Phillips. Most if not all of the latter specimens were deposited in the University of California Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley; the scapula was described by Reinhart (1959: 53, 55).
Deraniyagala, Paulus Edward Pieris (detail)
1965aA sanctuary for turtles, the dugong, whales and dolphins in the Indian and Southern oceans.
Loris 10(4): 246-250. 3 figs. Dec. 1965.
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Deraniyagala, Paulus Edward Pieris (detail)
1965bSome aspects of the fauna of Ceylon.
Jour. Roy. Acad. Sci. Ceylon 9(2): 201-221.
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Deraniyagala, Paulus Edward Pieris (detail)
1967Some new Miocene vertebrates from Ceylon. [Abstr.]
Proc. Ceylon Assoc. Adv. Sci., 23rd Ann. Session, Part 1: 50.
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Deraniyagala, Paulus Edward Pieris (detail)
1969cA Miocene vertebrate faunule from the Malu member of Ceylon.
Spolia Zeylanica 31(2): 551-570. 3 figs. 4 pls.
—"Tentatively" proposes "?Miodugong brevicranius", n.gen.n.sp. (554, 562-563, pl. 4). This was perhaps intended to be the definitive publication of this and the other new names of fossil vertebrates.
Deraniyagala, Paulus Edward Pieris (detail)
1969aSome aspects of the Tertiary Period in Ceylon.
Jour. Roy. Asiatic Soc. (Ceylon Branch) (2)12: 86-108. 5 figs. 3 pls. May 15, 1969.
—Very briefly describes Miodugong brevicranius [n.gen.n.sp.], based on a skull fragment from the Miocene Malu Member of the Jaffna Series, Ceylon (97, pl. 2). The photograph in the plate is useless. "Hypothetical reconstructions" (99) show both the dugong and a baleen whale with manatee-like tails. This appears to be the earliest of at least four publications of this and other new names in the same year; although it does not designate the names as "new", no prior publication of them is cited.
Deraniyagala, Paulus Edward Pieris (detail)
1969dSome Miocene vertebrates from Ceylon.
Jour. Pal. Soc. India 13: 20-23. Pl. 1.
—Mentions Miodugong (22).
Deraniyagala, Paulus Edward Pieris (detail)
1969bSome of the earliest vertebrates of Ceylon.
Loris 11(5): 235-237. 8 figs. June 1969.
—Summarizes the fauna described in 1969a. Miodugong brevicranius and the cetothere are again "reconstructed" with manatee-like tails.