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x Savage, Robert Joseph Gay; Tewari, B. S.
  1977
A new sirenian from Kutch, India.
Jour. Pal. Soc. India (Jurij Alexandrovich Orlov Memorial Number) 20: 216-218. 3 figs.
–Reports Metaxytherium sp. indet. from the Lower Miocene, with new reports of sirs. from the Eocene of Somali and India and the Miocene of Iran, and a review of all fossil sir. occurrences in the Indian Ocean area. A revised and expanded version of this paper (Tewari et al., 1977) changes the age assignment of the specimen described here to Upper Oligocene.

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Africa
(SEE ALSO: Indian Ocean; Egypt; Madagascar; Red Sea)
x  1977Savage & Tewari (indeterminate sirs.; Middle Eoc., Somali; 218.)
Asia
(SEE ALSO: Arctic Region; Bering Sea; China; East Indies; Indian Ocean; India; Japan; Red Sea; Russia; Sakhalin; Sri Lanka; Taiwan)
x  1977Savage & Tewari (indeterminate sirs.; Mioc., Iran; 218.)
Eocene
x  1977Savage & Tewari (indeterminate sir.; Somali, India; 218.)
Halianassa von Meyer, 1838
x  1977Savage & Tewari (syn. of Metaxytherium; m216.)
x  1977Tewari et al. (syn. of Metaxytherium; m47A.)
Halitherium Kaup, 1838
x  1977Savage & Tewari (Madagascar specimen considered Dugongidae indet.; 217.)
x  1977Tewari et al. (Madagascar specimen considered Dugongidae indet.; 47A.)
India
(SEE ALSO: Indian Ocean)
x  1977Savage & Tewari (Metaxytherium, Mioc.; indeterminate sir., Eoc.; Kutch; 216-218.)
x  1977Tewari et al. ("Metaxytherium sp."; Late Olig., Kutch; 45A-49A.)
Indian Ocean
(SEE ALSO: Africa; Asia; Australia; East Indies; India; Madagascar; Red Sea; Sri Lanka)
x  1977Savage & Tewari (fossil sirs.; 216-218.)
x  1977Tewari et al. (review of fossil sir. records; 47A.)
Indosiren von Koenigswald, 1952
x  1977Savage & Tewari (considered "sirenian indeterminate"; 217.)
x  1977Tewari et al. (considered "sirenian indet."; 47A.)
Metaxytherium de Christol, 1840
x  1977Savage & Tewari (Mioc., India; 216-218.)
x  1977Tewari et al. ("M. sp."; Late Olig., India; 46A-49A, pl. 1.)
Miocene
x  1977Savage & Tewari (Metaxytherium, India; indeterminate sirs., Iran & elsewhere in Indian Ocean region; 216-218.)
Miodugong brevicranius Deraniyagala, 1969
x  1977Savage & Tewari (considered "Metaxytherium sp. indet."; 217.)
x  1977Tewari et al. (considered "Metaxytherium sp. indet."; 47A.)
Oligocene
x  1977Tewari et al. ("Metaxytherium sp."; Late Olig., India; 45A-49A.)
Phylogeny and Affinities of the Sirenia and/or Desmostylia
(SEE ALSO under species)
  *1977Savage, R.J.G. (cladistic analysis of Sirenia)
Prorastomus sirenoides Owen, 1855
   1977Savage, R.J.G. (restudy of holotype)