After Domning, 1996
<==o †Desmostylia Reinhart, 1953 `--o †Desmostylidae Osborn, 1905 [incl. Cornwallidae Shikama, 1957, Paleoparadoxidae Reinhart, 1953] |-- †Behemotops proteus Domning, Ray, & McKenna, 1986 [+ Behemotops emlongi Domning, Ray, & McKenna, 1986] `--+-- †Cornwallius sookensis (Cornwall, 1922) Hay, 1923 `--+-- †Desmostylus hesperus Marsh, 1888 `--+-- †Vanderhoofius coalingensis Reinhart, 1959 `--o †Paleoparadoxia Reinhart, 1959 |-- †P. tabatai (Tokunaga, 1939) Reinhart, 1959 [“Cornwallius” tabatai Tokunaga, 1939] `-- †P. weltoni Clark, 1991
Reference(s):
- Carroll, R. L., 1988: Vertebrate paleontology and evolution.
–W. H. Freeman and company, New York, 1988, 698. - Carroll, R. L., 1988: Appendix. 594-648.
in Carroll, R. L., 1988: Vertebrate paleontology and evolution.
–W. H. Freeman and company, New York, 1988, 698. - Clark, J. M., 1991: A new Early Miocene species of Paleoparadoxia (Mammalia: Desmostylia) from California.
–Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 11, #4, pp. 490-508 - Domning, D. P., 1996: Bibliography and index of the Sirenia and Desmostylia.
–Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology: No. 80, pp. iv-611 - Domning, D. P., Ray, C. E. & McKenna, M. C., 1986: Two New Oligocene desmostylians and a discussion of tethytherian systematics.
–Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology: No. 59, pp. iv-56 - McKenna, M. C. & Bell, S. K., (eds.) 1997: Classification of mammals – above the species level.
–Columbia University Press, New York, 1997, xii-631