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Seuku emlongi Domning et al. 1986 (desmostylian)

Mammalia - Desmostylia

PaleoDB taxon number: 328207

Alternative combination: Behemotops emlongi

Full reference: D. P. Domning, C. E. Ray, and M. C. McKenna. 1986. Two new Oligocene desmostylians and a discussion of Tethytherian systematics. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 59:1-56

Belongs to Seuku according to B. L. Beatty and T. C. Cockburn 2015

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: USNM 244033, a mandible. Its type locality is Elephant Rock, SE of, which is in a Chattian marine siltstone in the Yaquina Formation of Oregon.

Ecology: scansorial insectivore