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x Floyd, D. N.; Miller, Theophile H.; Berry, William B. N.
  1958
Miocene paleoecology in the Burkeville area, Newton County, Texas.
Trans. Gulf Coast Assoc. Geol. Socs. 8: 157-165. 2 pls. Oct. 1958.
–Reports "teeth of a sea cow and a ray and some bone fragments of turtles, catfish, and bony pikes ... associated with the valves of Ostrea normalis.... Sea cows and rays lived near the oysters and fed on them" (160-161). This Late Miocene "sea cow" was the "?Desmostylus" reported by Stenzel et al. (1944). Reinhart (1976: 286-287) identified the tooth fragments as proboscidean.

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Desmostylus Marsh, 1888
xDv1958Floyd et al. (supposed occurrence in Texas; 160-161.)
Miocene
xD 1958Floyd et al. (supposed "sea cow"; Texas; 160-161.)
Paleoecology and Taphonomy
xD 1958Floyd et al. (supposed Desmostylus; Texas; 160-161.)
Texas
xD 1958Floyd et al. (?Desmostylus; 160-161.)