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x Novacek, Michael J.
  1992
Fossils, topologies, missing data, and the higher level phylogeny of eutherian mammals.
Syst. Biol. 41(1): 58-73. 2 tabs. 12 figs. Mar. 1992.
–Concludes that the Tethytheria (Sirenia, Proboscidea, and Desmostylia) are cladistically a well-supported and stable grouping, and that the Paenungulata (Tethytheria + Hyracoidea) are supported when fossil data are included but are considerably less stable than the Tethytheria.

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Phylogeny and Affinities of the Sirenia and/or Desmostylia
(SEE ALSO under species)
xD 1992Novacek, M.J. (Tethytheria a well-supported group; 59-69.)