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x Humphreys, John
  1908
The teeth of fossil fishes.
Proc. Roy. Soc. Med., Odont. Sect. 1(3): 7-16. 1 pl.
–P. 8: {"In Edentates we find the teeth of the sloths are formed of a dentine permeated by vascular canals, hence termed vaso-dentine. The megatherium, the gigantic extinct sloth of South America, exhibits this variety very clearly, in which the dentine and the cementum also were rich in looped blood-vessels which traversed the structures. "The teeth of the manatee possess similar characteristics...."}

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x  1908Humphreys, J. (Trichechus; dentine; m8.)
Trichechus Linnaeus, 1758
xv 1908Humphreys, J. (dentine; m8.)