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x Osborn, Henry Fairfield
  1902a
A remarkable new mammal from Japan. Its relationship to the Californian genus Desmostylus, Marsh.
Science 16(409): 713-714. Oct. 31, 1902.
–Discusses the similarities between the Japanese and American Desmostylus, and lists some American specimens. In Yoshiwara & Iwasaki (1902), Osborn considered the Japanese specimen a proboscidean; he now concedes that Desmostylus may be either a proboscidean or a sirenian.

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California
xD 1902aOsborn, H.F. (finds of Desmostylus; 713-714.)
Desmostylus hesperus Marsh, 1888
xD 1902aOsborn, H.F. (comp. w/ Japanese Desmostylus; 713-714.)
Egypt
(SEE ALSO: Red Sea)
x  1902bOsborn, H.F. (Eosiren; Eoc.; 715.)
Eocene
x  1902bOsborn, H.F. (Eosiren; Egypt; 715.)
Eosiren Andrews, 1902
x  1902bOsborn, H.F. (phyletic significance; 715.)
Halicore Illiger, 1811
x  1902aOsborn, H.F. (m714.)
Halitherium Kaup, 1838
x  1902bOsborn, H.F. (m715.)
Japan
(SEE ALSO: Sakhalin)
xD 1902aOsborn, H.F. (Desmostylus; discussion of original Japanese discovery; 713-714.)
Metaxytherium de Christol, 1840
x  1902aOsborn, H.F. (m714.)
Oregon
xD 1902aOsborn, H.F. (Desmostylus; 714.)
Phylogeny and Affinities of the Sirenia and/or Desmostylia
(SEE ALSO under species)
xD 1902aOsborn, H.F. (Desmostylus considered either proboscidean or sir.; 713.)
x  1902bOsborn, H.F. (Eosiren; 715.)