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x Domning, Daryl Paul
  1982b
Evolution of manatees: a speculative history.
Jour. Paleont. 56(3): 599-619. 9 figs. May 1982.
–Reviews all records of fossil trichechids and possible trichechids, and proposes an evolutionary scenario for the family, based on Tertiary changes in South American drainage patterns and the evolution of floating meadows. Reports new material of: Potamosiren sp., Miocene, Colombia (601-602); Ribodon limbatus, Miocene, Argentina (602-603); Ribodon sp., ?Pliocene, North Carolina (604); Trichechus sp., Plio-Pleistocene, Brazil (603-604) and Florida (604-605) and Pleistocene, Louisiana (605). Illustrates for the first time Funderburg's (1960) Pleistocene Trichechus from North Carolina (605). Discusses the homology of cheek teeth in Trichechus (607-608), the importance of a gramineous diet in the manatees' evolution of horizontal tooth replacement (609-612), possible trichechid-dugongid competition in the Caribbean (613-614), and the present adaptive status of manatees (615-616). Suggests that root hypsodonty in Dugong is recently evolved (614). Concludes that trichechids probably evolved in South America from a protosirenid ancestor, and adapted there to a diet of freshwater grasses by the evolution of supernumerary molars.

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Africa
(SEE ALSO: Indian Ocean; Egypt; Madagascar; Red Sea)
x  1982cDomning, D.P. (Metaxytherium serresii; Plioc., Sahabi, Libya; 29-32.)
Alabama
x  1982Domning, Morgan & Ray (indeterminate sirs.; Eoc.; 4, 6, 8-9, 17.)
Anisosiren pannonica Kordos, 1979
x  1982Domning, Morgan & Ray (comp. w/ other Eoc. sirs.; 5, 35-36, 55.)
Argentina
x  1982bDomning, D.P. (Ribodon limbatus; Mioc.-Plioc., Paran R.; 602-603.)
Brazil
x *1982aDomning, D.P. (TI, TMM; commercial exploitation, ca. 1785-1973; 101-126.)
x  1982bDomning, D.P. (Trichechus; Pleist., Acre; 603-604.)
Colombia
x  1982bDomning, D.P. (Potamosiren sp.; Mioc.; 601-602.)
Dioplotherium allisoni (Kilmer, 1965) Domning, 1978
x  1982bDomning, D.P. (incipient root hypsodonty; 614.)
Dioplotherium Cope, 1883
x  1982Domning, Morgan & Ray (m62.)
Dugong australis (Retzius, 1794) [author of combination not identified]
x  1982Domning, Rice et al. (syn. of D. dugon; m305.)
Dugong dugon (Müller, 1776) Palmer, 1895
x  1982Domning, Rice et al. (distr. & status; 305.)
Dugong hemprichii (Ehrenberg, 1828) [author of combination not identified]
x  1982Domning, Rice et al. (syn. of D. dugon; m305.)
Dugong Lacépède, 1799
x  1982bDomning, D.P. (diet & evolution; 610, 613-614, 616.)
x  1982Domning, Morgan & Ray (comp. w/ Protosiren, 40; rostral deflection & diet, 62.)
Dusisiren Domning, 1978
x  1982Domning, Morgan & Ray (m62.)
Economic Uses
(SEE ALSO: Archeological Sites, Sirenia at; Hunting and Capture; Medicinal Applications; Religious, Superstitious, or Ornamental Use or Observance; Weed Control)
x *1982aDomning, D.P. (TI, TMM; Brazil; meat, fat, hide; history of commercial exploitation, ca. 1785-1973; 101-126.)
Egypt
(SEE ALSO: Red Sea)
x  1982Domning, Morgan & Ray (Protosiren n.sp.; Late Eoc.; 55-56, 59.)
Eocene
x *1982Domning, Morgan & Ray (review of worldwide sir. record; 1-69.)
Eotherium majus Zdansky, 1938
x  1982Domning, Morgan & Ray (comp. w/ other Eoc. sirs.; 5, 38, 58.)
Eotherium stromeri Sickenberg, 1934
x  1982Domning, Morgan & Ray (comp. w/ other Eoc. sirs.; 5, 38, 58.)
Eotheroides abeli (Sickenberg, 1934) Kordos, 1977
x  1982Domning, Morgan & Ray (comp. w/ other Eoc. sirs.; 5, 38, 43, 57-58.)
Eotheroides aegyptiacum (Owen, 1875) Trouessart, 1905
x  1982bDomning, D.P. (possibly ancestral to trichechids; 600.)
x  1982Domning, Morgan & Ray (comp. w/ other Eoc. sirs.; 5, 19, 36-38, 47, 52, 57, 59.)
Eotheroides libycum (Andrews, 1902) Reinhart, 1951
x  1982Domning, Morgan & Ray (comp. w/ other Eoc. sirs.; 5, 30, 38, 41, 57-59.)
Eotheroides Palmer, 1899
x  1982Domning, Morgan & Ray (comp. w/ other Eoc. sirs.; 5, 8, 37, 57-58, 62.)
Felsinotherium Capellini, 1872
x  1982cDomning, D.P. (syn. of Metaxytherium; m30.)
Florida
x  1982bDomning, D.P. (Trichechus sp., Pleist., 604-605; TML, quartz sand & tooth wear, 615-616.)
x *1982Domning, Morgan & Ray (Protosiren sp. & other Eoc. sirs., 4, 6, 9-11, 17-18; TM, Pleist., Waccasassa R., 18.)
Food
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Ingestive; Captivity, Sirenians in; Digestive System; Food Plants; Weed Control) (NOTE: Plants reported as part of the captive but not the natural diet of sirs. will not necessarily be found under Food Plants. Papers referring to them are, however, indexed here.)
x *1982bDomning, D.P. (Trichechidae; diet & evolution; 609-616.)
x  1982Domning, Morgan & Ray (Eoc. sirs.; 61-63.)
Food Plants: Impatiens
x  1982bDomning, D.P. (West Africa; 610, 615.)
Food Plants: Nymphaea
x  1982bDomning, D.P. ("N. cf. rufescens"; West Africa; 609-610.)
Food Plants: Nymphaea lotus
x  1982bDomning, D.P. (West Africa; 609-610.)
Georgia
x  1982Domning, Morgan & Ray (Eoc. sirs.; 4, 6, 11-12.)
Halicore tabernaculi Rüppell, 1834
x  1982Domning, Rice et al. (syn. of Dugong dugon; m305.)
Halitherium christolii Fitzinger, 1842
x  1982Domning, Morgan & Ray (comp. w/ Eoc. sirs.; 43.)
Halitherium Kaup, 1838
x  1982Domning, Morgan & Ray (supposed Eoc. records; 5, 39.)
Halitherium schinzii (Kaup, 1838) Kaup, 1855
x  1982bDomning, D.P. (molarization of premolars; m608.)
x  1982Domning, Morgan & Ray (comp. w/ Eoc. sirs.; 30, 39.)
Haplosiren leganyii Kretzoi, 1951
   1982cDomning, D.P. (comp. w/ Metaxytherium serresi; 29-30.)
Hemicaulodon effodiens Cope, 1869
x  1982Domning, Morgan & Ray (considered an odobenid; 2.)
Hydrodamalis gigas (Zimmermann, 1780) Palmer, 1895
x  1982Domning, Rice et al. (former distr.; 305.)
Ishatherium subathuense Sahni and Kumar, 1980
x  1982Domning, Morgan & Ray ("I. subathuensis"; sir. affinities considered doubtful; 5, 55, 61.)
Lophiodolodus Stirton, 1947
x  1982bDomning, D.P. (probably not a sir.; 600.)
Louisiana
x  1982bDomning, D.P. (Trichechus sp.; Late Pleist., Jefferson Davis Par.; 605.)
Manatus Brünnich, 1771
x  1982Domning, Rice et al. (syn. of Trichechus; m305.)
Metaxytherium cuvierii (de Christol, 1832) de Christol in de Blainville, 1844
x  1982cDomning, D.P. (syn. of M. medium; m29.)
Metaxytherium de Christol, 1840
x  1982Domning, Morgan & Ray (comp. w/ Eoc. sirs.; 18, 30, 39.)
Metaxytherium floridanum Hay, 1922
xv 1982bDomning, D.P. (comp. w/ Potamosiren, 602; tooth wear, 614.)
Metaxytherium forestii (Capellini, 1872) Fondi and Pacini, 1974
x  1982cDomning, D.P. (comp. w/ M. serresii; 29-31.)
Metaxytherium medium (Desmarest, 1822) Hooijer, 1952
x  1982cDomning, D.P. (comp. w/ M. serresii; 29-31.)
Metaxytherium ortegense Kellogg, 1966
x  1982bDomning, D.P. (comp. w/ Potamosiren; 602, 612.)
Metaxytherium serresii (Gervais, 1849) Depéret, 1895
x  1982cDomning, D.P. (Plioc., Libya; 29-32.)
Miocene
x  1982bDomning, D.P. (Potamosiren sp., Colombia, 601-602; Ribodon limbatus, Argentina, 602.)
Miosiren Dollo, 1889
x  1982Domning, Morgan & Ray (comp. w/ Eoc. sirs.; 58, 61.)
Natural Enemies
(SEE ALSO: Natural Death or Injury)
x  1982cDomning, D.P. (Metaxytherium serresii; Plioc., Libya; bones scarred by shark Carcharodon megalodon; 29, 32.)
North Carolina
x  1982bDomning, D.P. (Ribodon sp., ?Plioc., 604; Trichechus sp., Pleist., 605.)
x *1982Domning, Morgan & Ray (Eoc. sirs.; 4, 6, 13-17, 39.)
Paleoecology and Taphonomy
x  1982bDomning, D.P. (trichechids; South America; evolution & environmental changes; 607, 610-616.)
x  1982cDomning, D.P. (Metaxytherium serresii; Mioc.-Plioc., Mediterranean; seagrasses & salinity crisis; shark predation; 29-31.)
x  1982Domning, Morgan & Ray (Eoc. sirs. & seagrasses; 61-63.)
Paralitherium tarkanyense Kordos, 1977
x  1982Domning, Morgan & Ray (comp. w/ other Eoc. sirs.; 5, 39, 58.)
Parasites: Chiorchis fabaceus (Diesing, 1838) Fischoeder, 1901
x  1982bDomning, D.P. (zoogeographic significance; 613.)
Phylogeny and Affinities of the Sirenia and/or Desmostylia
(SEE ALSO under species)
x  1982Domning, Morgan & Ray (dental formulae; sirs. & other eutherians; 59-60.)
Pleistocene
x  1982bDomning, D.P. (Trichechus sp.; Brazil, 603-604; Florida, 604-605; Louisiana, 605.)
x  1982Domning, Morgan & Ray (TM; Waccasassa R., Florida; m18.)
Pliocene
x  1982bDomning, D.P. (Ribodon, North Carolina; Trichechus, Florida; 604.)
x  1982cDomning, D.P. (Metaxytherium serresii; Sahabi, Libya; 29-32.)
Potamosiren magdalenensis Reinhart, 1951
x *1982bDomning, D.P. (phyletic position; 600-603, 606-607, 609, 611-613, 616.)
Potamosiren Reinhart, 1951
x *1982bDomning, D.P. (Potamosiren sp.; Mioc., Colombia; 601-602, 606.)
Prorastomus sirenoides Owen, 1855
x  1982bDomning, D.P. (not closely related to trichechids; 599.)
x  1982Domning, Morgan & Ray (comp. w/ other Eoc. sirs.; 1-2, 4, 7, 35, 55, 59-63.)
Protosiren Abel, 1907
x  1982bDomning, D.P. (?ancestral to trichechids; 599-600, 605, 615-616.)
x *1982Domning, Morgan & Ray (Protosiren sp.; Middle Eoc., Florida & North Carolina, 4, 18-63; Late Eoc., Egypt, 55-56.)
Protosiren dubia (Cuvier, 1824) Sickenberg, 1934
x  1982Domning, Morgan & Ray (syn. of ?P. minima; m57.)
Protosiren fraasi Abel, 1907
x *1982Domning, Morgan & Ray (comp. w/ other Eoc. sirs.; 5, 18, 30, 36-37, 39, 42-44, 55-57, 59.)
Protosiren minima (Desmarest, 1822) Hooijer, 1952
x  1982Domning, Morgan & Ray (comp. w/ other Eoc. sirs.; 5, 37, 57.)
Prototherium veronense (de Zigno, 1875) de Zigno, 1887
x  1982bDomning, D.P. (deciduous dentition, comp. w/ Trichechus; 608.)
x  1982Domning, Morgan & Ray (comp. w/ other Eoc. sirs.; 5, 38-39, 58-59.)
Ribodon Ameghino, 1883
x *1982bDomning, D.P. (?Plioc., North Carolina; 604.)
Ribodon limbatus Ameghino, 1883
x *1982bDomning, D.P. (new material & phyletic position; 602-604, 606, 609, 611-613, 616.)
Rytina Illiger, 1811
x  1982Domning, Rice et al. (syn. of Hydrodamalis; m305.)
Sirenavus hungaricus Kretzoi, 1941
x  1982Domning, Morgan & Ray (comp. w/ other Eoc. sirs.; 5, 35, 55, 61.)
Sirenotherium pirabense de Paula Couto, 1967
x  1982bDomning, D.P. (referred to Trichechidae or Dugongidae incertae sedis; 600, 606, 612.)
South America
(SEE ALSO under countries)
x *1982bDomning, D.P. (role in trichechid evolution, 599, 605-607, 610-613, 616; evolution of floating meadows & changes in Amazonian drainage pattern, 610-613.)
South Carolina
x  1982Domning, Morgan & Ray (Eoc. sirs.; 4, 6, 12-13.)
Texas
x  1982Domning, Morgan & Ray (indeterminate sir.; Eoc., Zapata Co.; 4, 6, 8.)
Tooth Replacement
x *1982bDomning, D.P. (trichechids, diet & evolution, 601, 603, 607-611, 613-616; Trichechus, cheek-tooth homologies, 607-608.)
Trachypleurotherium Dilg, 1909
x  1982bDomning, D.P. (probable horizon; considered nomen nudum; 600.)
Trichechidae Gill, 1872 (1821)
x *1982bDomning, D.P. (origin & evolution; 599-619.)
Trichechus antiquus (Leidy, 1856) Hay, 1902
x  1982bDomning, D.P. (specimen of Hay [1919] considered Subrecent TM; 604-605.)
Trichechus exunguis (Natterer in Diesing, 1839) Stunkard, 1929
x  1982Domning, Rice et al. (syn. of T. inunguis; nomen oblitum; m305.)
Trichechus inunguis (Natterer in von Pelzeln, 1883) Thomas and Lydekker, 1897
x *1982aDomning, D.P. (Brazil; commercial exploitation; 101-126.)
x *1982bDomning, D.P. (evolution; 600, 603-613, 615-616.)
x  1982Domning, Rice et al. (distr. & status; 305-306.)
Trichechus latirostris (Harlan, 1824) True, 1884
x  1982Domning, Rice et al. (syn. of T. manatus; m306.)
Trichechus Linnaeus, 1758
x *1982bDomning, D.P. (origin & evolution; 599-619.)
x  1982Domning, Morgan & Ray (comp. w/ Eoc. sirs.; 18, 30, 39.)
Trichechus manatus Linnaeus, 1758
x  1982aDomning, D.P. (Brazil; commercial exploitation; 122-124.)
x *1982bDomning, D.P. (evolution; 600, 603-616.)
x  1982Domning, Morgan & Ray (Pleist., Waccasassa R., Florida, 18; rostral deflection & diet, 62.)
x  1982Domning, Rice et al. (distr. & status; 305-306.)
Trichechus senegalensis Link, 1795
x *1982bDomning, D.P. (evolution; 600, 602, 604-613, 615-616.)
x  1982Domning, Rice et al. (distr. & status; 306.)