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x Savage, Robert Joseph Gay
  1975
Prorastomus and new early Tertiary sirenians from North Africa. [Abstr.]
Amer. Zool. 15(3): 824. Summer 1975.
–Restudy of the holotype of Prorastomus sirenoides demonstrates the presence of "4 premolars and 5 anterior teeth", an unfused petrosum, and otic similarities to condylarths. New Middle Eocene and Early Miocene Libyan sirs. include a "flat-tusked dugongid" [Rytiodus].

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Africa
(SEE ALSO: Indian Ocean; Egypt; Madagascar; Red Sea)
x  1975Savage, R.J.G. (Eoc. & Mioc. sirs., Libya; m824.)
Prorastomus sirenoides Owen, 1855
x  1975Savage, R.J.G. (restudy of holotype; 824.)
Rytiodus Lartet, 1866
xv 1975Savage, R.J.G. ("flat-tusked dugongid"; Libya; m824.)