Hooijer, Dirk Albert

4 publications

Hooijer, Dirk Albert (detail)
1952Fact and fiction in hippopotamology (sampling the history of scientific error).
Osiris 10: 109-116.
—Reviews the nomenclatural history of "Hippopotamus minimus" and "Hippopotamus medius", noting that the first is a senior synonym of H. dubius. Corrects the name of Protosiren(?) dubia to P.(?) minima, new combination (113-114).
Hooijer, Dirk Albert (detail)
1977A sirenian skeleton from the Miocene of Eibergen, Province of Gelderland, The Netherlands: Metaxytherium cf. medium (Desmarest).
Scripta Geol. 41: 1-25. 6 pls.
—Describes and compares a partial skeleton of Middle-Late Miocene (Langenfeldian-Badenian?) age in the Leiden Museum.
Hooijer, Dirk Albert (detail)
1982A sirenian rib dredged from the Western Scheldt, The Netherlands.
Netherlands Jour. Zool. 32(2): 261-262. Pl. 1.
—Describes the distal portion of a rib, of unknown age but resembling those of Metaxytherium cf. medium from the Miocene of Eibergen (see Hooijer, 1977).
Hooijer, Dirk Albert (detail)
1984The solution of the Cryptomastodon problem.
Netherlands Jour. Zool. 34(2): 228-231. 1 fig.
—Shows that the supposed desmostylian Cryptomastodon martini v. Koenigswald, 1933 was based on material of Stegodon (Proboscidea) and Geochelone (Chelonia).