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Zaaijer, T. (detail)
   
1894
Die Persistenz der Synchondrosis condylo-squamosa am Hinterhauptsbeine des Menschen und der Säugetiere.
Anat. Anz. 9(11): 337-342. 4 figs. Mar. 30, 1894.
–Notes the occurrence of unfused exoccipital-supraoccipital sutures in two dugong skulls, and regards them as anomalous (340).
 
 
Zalmout, Iyad Saleh; Gingerich, Philip D. (detail)
   
2012
Late Eocene sea cows (Mammalia, Sirenia) from Wadi Al Hitan in the Western Desert of Fayum, Egypt.
Univ. Michigan Papers on Paleontology No. 37: xiii + 158. 44 tabs. Frontisp. 101 figs. Dec. 17, 2012.
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Zalmout, Iyad Saleh; Haq, Munir Ul-; Gingerich, Philip D. (detail)
   
2003
New species of Protosiren (Mammalia, Sirenia) from the early Middle Eocene of Balochistan (Pakistan).
Contr. Mus. Pal. Univ. Michigan 31(3): 79-87. 1 tab. 4 figs. Aug. 15, 2003.
–Abstr.: Jour. Vert. Pal. 21(3), Suppl.: 117A, Aug. 22, 2001. Describes Protosiren eothene, n.sp., based on a partial thorax of early Lutetian age. It is the smallest and oldest in a series of species also comprising P. fraasi, P. sattaensis, and P. smithae and spanning some 8 million years.
 
 
Zammit-Maempel, George (detail)
   
1982
The folklore of Maltese fossils.
Papers in Mediterranean Social Studies 1: 1-29.
–Records fragmentary sir. remains from the Lower Coralline Limestone Formation (Rupelian, Early Olig.), Malta.
Zann, Leon: SEE Gray & Zann, 1988. (detail)
Zapata-Perez, O.: SEE Noreno-B. et al., 1998. (detail)
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Zapfe, Helmuth (detail)
   
1953
Zur Altersfrage der Braunkohle von Langau bei Geras in Niederösterreich.
Berg- und Hüttenmännische Monatshefte (Vienna) 98(1): 12-16. 2 figs.
–Reports rib fragments referred to Metaxytherium krahuletzi from the Langau lignite as supporting an Early Mioc. age for the deposit (14).
Zárate Becerra, Edith: SEE ALSO Colmenero-R. & Zárate, 1990. (detail)
 
 
Zárate Becerra, Edith (detail)
   
1993
Distribución del manatí (Trichechus manatus) en la porción sur de Quintana Roo, México.
Revista de Investigación Científica (Univ. Autón. de Baja California Sur), Sér. Ciencias del Mar 1 (Número Especial SOMEMMA 1): 1-11. 5 tabs. 3 figs. May 1993.
–Engl. summ. This special number is devoted to papers from the Sociedad Mexicana para el Estudio de los Mamíferos Marinos (SOMEMMA).
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Zastrow, Nathan; Jaquette, Leslee (detail)
   
2001
Manatees and marinas: who's endangered now?
Marina Dock Age (Niles, Illinois) 14(3): 23-27. 5 figs. Apr./May 2001.
–Reports on the ongoing controversy among marina owners, government agencies, and the Save the Manatee Club over permitting of marina construction in Florida in the wake of settlement of lawsuits brought by the Save the Manatee Club.
Zavala, Ma. Elia Hoz: SEE Colmenero-Rolón & Hoz-Zavala, 1986. (detail)
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Zbyszewski, Georges (detail)
   
1944
Note sur la découverte d'un humerus de Metaxitherium Petersi Abel dans l'Helvétien Vb de Lisbonne.
Bol. Soc. Geol. Portugal 4(1/2): 69-72. 2 figs.
–Refers a Miocene humerus from Quinta da Farinheira (Chelas, Portugal) to M. petersi on the basis of its size, shape, and intertubercular angle.
 
 
Zbyszewski, Georges (detail)
   
1949
Les vertébrés du Burdigalien supérieur de Lisbonne.
Mem. Serv. Geol. Portugal 1949: 1-77. Pl. A. & 22 pls.
 
 
Zbyszewski, Georges (detail)
   
1954
L'Aquitanien supérieur de Lisbonne et du Ribatejo.
Comunicações Serv. Geol. Portugal 35: 99-153.
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Zdansky, Otto (detail)
   
1938
Eotherium majus sp. n., eine neue Sirene aus dem Mitteleozän von Ägypten.
Palaeobiologica 6(2): 429-434. 1 fig.
–Bases the new species on a single upper molar from Gebel Mokattam, Egypt.
 
 
Zecchini, A. (detail)
   
1998
Les dugongs et les lamantins mal en point. Des sirènes qui disparaissent.
Courrier de la Nature 173: 19-23.
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Zeiller, Warren (detail)
   
1981
The management of West Indian manatees (Trichechus manatus) at the Miami Seaquarium. In: R. L. Brownell, Jr., & K. Ralls (eds.), The West Indian manatee in Florida. Proceedings of a workshop held in Orlando, Florida 27-29 March 1978 (q.v.).
Tallahassee, Florida Dept. Nat. Res. (iv + 154): 103-110. 1 tab. 1 fig.
–Describes the Seaquarium's past, present, and proposed manatee facilities, the care and feeding of an orphaned calf, its measurements and growth on an artificial milk formula, the treatment of ectoparasitic infestations, the control of algal growth on manatees and in tanks, mating in captivity, and the birth of a calf conceived in captivity.
 
 
Zeiller, Warren (detail)
   
1992
Introducing the manatee.
Gainesville, University Press of Florida: 1-151. 1 tab. 110 figs.
–Pop. acc. of sirs., emphasizing the author's experiences with captive Florida manatees at the Miami Seaquarium.
Zemskij, V. A.: SEE Arseniev et al., 1973. (detail)
 
 
Zhang, Yongzu; et al. (detail)
   
1997
Distribution of mammalian species in China.
China Forestry Publishing House: 1-279.
–Dugong, 111.
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Zhang, Zhou-man (detail)
   
1979
About dugong. The secret of mermaids.
Nat. Hist. (Shanghai Nat. Hist. Mus.) 1: 33-36.
–In Chinese. Pop. acc. of mermaid legends and of an expedition in 1975 that captured a group of supposed mermaids (dugongs) on the coast of Kwangsi, China, north of Hainan Island.
Zhou, Kaiya: SEE ALSO Yang & Zhou, 1996. (detail)
 
 
Zhou, Kaiya (detail)
   
1986
An outline of marine mammalogical researches in China.
Acta Theriol. Sinica 6(3): 219-232. 2 tabs.
–In Chinese; Engl. summ. Includes extensive bibliography of Chinese marine-mammal literature.
 
 
Zhou, Kaiya; Xu, X.-R.; Tang, J.-S. (detail)
   
2003
Survey of the status of the dugong in the Beibu Gulf, China, with remarks on the Indian Humpbacked Dolphin (Sousa plumbea).
Acta Theriologica Sinica 23(1): 21-26. Feb. 2003.
–In Chinese.
Zhou, Xiaoyuan: SEE Gingerich et al., 1993. (detail)
Zieman, Joseph C.: SEE Thayer et al., 1984; Tilmant et al., 1994. (detail)
 
 
Zigno, Achille de (detail)
   
1871
Halitherium, dann Mastodon arvernensis in den Tertiärgebilden im Venetianischen.
Verh. Geol. Reichsanst. Wien 1871: 15-16.
 
 
Zigno, Achille de (detail)
   
1873a
Resti di sirenoidi trovati nel Veneto.
Boll. Com. Geol. Ital. 4: 57-58.
 
 
Zigno, Achille de (detail)
   
1873b
Reste von Sirenoiden, gefunden in Venetien.
Verh. Geol. Reichsanst. Wien 1873: 25-26.
–Abstr.: Quart. Jour. Geol. Soc. London 29(2): 5?
 
 
Zigno, Achille de (detail)
   
1875a
Sirenii fossili trovati nel Veneto.
Mem. Ist. Veneto Sci. Lett. Arti 18: 427-456. Pls. 14-18.
–Abstr.: Atti Ist. Veneto Sci. (5)1: 302-303? De Zigno's most important work on sirs. Describes the new species Halitherium Bellunense (Early Miocene, Italy), H. angustifrons, H. curvidens, and H. Veronense (the latter three all = Prototherium veronense; Late Eocene, Italy).
 
 
Zigno, Achille de (detail)
   
1875b
Sui mammiferi fossili del Veneto.
Riv. Period. Lav., Accad. Sci. Lett. Arti Padova 24: 101-112. Read July 26, 1874?
 
 
Zigno, Achille de (detail)
   
1877
Sopra un primo cranio di Halitherium rinvenuto nei terreni eocenici d'Italia, e sopra quattro plagiostomi del Monte Bolca.
Atti Ist. Veneto Sci. (5)3: 496-497.
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Zigno, Achille de (detail)
   
1878a
Sur les siréniens fossiles d'Italie.
Bull. Soc. Géol. France (3)6: 66-70. 1 tab. Read Oct. 25, 1877.
–Summarizes researches on Italian sirs. and the names applied to them to date, including Felsinotherium subapenninum, n.comb., and "Felsinotherium n. sp." (= F. gastaldi). Recognizes 3 Eocene and 1 Miocene species of Halitherium and 4 Pliocene species of Felsinotherium.
 
 
Zigno, Achille de (detail)
   
1878b
Sopra un nuovo sirenio fossile scoperto nelle colline di Brà in Piemonte.
Atti Accad. Lincei, Mem. Classe Sci. Fis. Matem. Nat. (Rome) (3)2: 939-949. 6 pls.
–Abstr.: Trans. Accad. Lincei 2: 185-186? Describes Felsinotherium Gastaldi, n.sp., and coins the new combination F. Serresii.
 
 
Zigno, Achille de (detail)
   
1878c
Sui sirenoidi fossili dell'Italia.
Bol. Com. Geol. Ital. 9: 105-109.
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Zigno, Achille de (detail)
   
1880a
Nuove osservazioni sull'Halitherium veronense Z.
Mem. Ist. Veneto Sci. Lett. Arti 21: 291-298. Pl. 4.
–Supplements his earlier (1875a) description of the species with a description of a mandible and scapula.
 
 
Zigno, Achille de (detail)
   
1880b
Lettura e sunto delle nuove osservazioni sull'Halitherium veronense.
Atti Ist. Veneto Sci. (5)6: 393-394.
 
 
Zigno, Achille de (detail)
   
1882
Nuove aggiunte alla fauna eocena del Veneto.
Mem. Ist. Veneto Sci. Lett. Arti 21: 775-790. Pl. 15.
–Abstr.: Atti Ist. Veneto Sci. (5)7: 508, 1881?
 
 
Zigno, Achille de (detail)
   
1887
Quelques observations sur les siréniens fossiles.
Bull. Soc. Géol. France (3)15: 728-732. Pl. 27.
 
 
Zimmermann, Eberhard August Wilhelm von (detail)
   
1777
Specimen zoologiae geographicae, quadrupedum domicilia et migrationes sistens. Dedit, tabulamque mundi zoographicam adjunxit.
Lugduni Batavorum [= Leiden], Theodor Haak et Socios: xxiv + 685. 1 map.
–Sirs., 263-266.
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Zimmermann, Eberhard August Wilhelm von (detail)
   
1778
Geographische Geschichte des Menschen, und der allgemein verbreiteten vierfüssigen Thiere, nebst einer hieher gehörigen zoologischen Weltcharte.... Erster Band.
Leipzig, Weygandschen Buchhandlung: 1-308. 1 map.
–Allen 350. The entire work comprises 3 vols. (1778-83); for vol. 2 see Zimmermann (1780). Describes the distribution of "Trichechus Manatus" (which includes the dugong and both American and African manatees, but is distinguished from Steller's sea cow) (253-254).
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Zimmermann, Eberhard August Wilhelm von (detail)
   
1780
Geographische Geschichte des Menschen, und der vierfüssigen Thiere. Zweiter Band. Enthält ein vollständiges Verzeichniss aller bekannten Quadrupeden.
Leipzig, Weygandschen Buchhandlung: 1-432.
–Allen 350 (cont.). Distinguishes "Trichecus (Rosmarus)" (= the walrus) and "Trichechus (Dugung)" (425), "Manati gigas" (new name, = Hydrodamalis gigas; 426) and "Thrichechus (Manatus)" (426-427). Does not consistently use binomial nomenclature. The matter pertaining to M. gigas is reprinted in full in E. Mohr (1950: 184). See also J. A. Allen (1902).
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Zipperlen, A. (detail)
   
1889
Ein Lamantin, Manatus americanus.
Zool. Garten 30: 25-26.
–Briefly describes the external and internal morphology of a manatee from Indian River, Florida, that lived for 10 days at the Cincinnati Zoo.
 
 
Zittel, Karl Alfred von (detail)
   
1893
Handbuch der Palaeontologie. I. Abt. Palaeozoologie. IV. Band. Vertebrata (Mammalia).
Munich & Leipzig, R. Oldenbourg: xi + 799. 590 figs.
–French transl., Paris, O. Doin, 1894. Sirs., 6-30, 62, 187-202.
 
 
Zittel, Karl Alfred von; Schlosser, Max (detail)
   
1911
Grundzüge der Paläontologie (Paläozoologie).
308-598. Figs. 457-749.
–Sirs., 540.
 
 
Zittel, Karl Alfred von; Schlosser, Max (detail)
   
1923
Grundzüge der Paläontologie (Paläozoologie).... II. Abteilung. Vertebrata. Ed. 4.
Munich & Berlin, R. Oldenbourg: v + 162, figs. 1-259; 209-689, figs. 317-800.
–Sirs., 632, 636, 670 (section revised by Schlosser).
 
 
Zoehfeld, Kathleen Weidner (detail)
   
1994
Manatee winter.
Norwalk (Connecticut), Trudy Management Corp., & Smithsonian Inst. (Soundprints series; Smithsonian Oceanic Collection): 1-30. Illus.
–Book for young children, describing the journey of a Florida manatee mother and calf to a warm-water spring as winter approaches. Available with companion read-along audiocassette tape and stuffed toy.
Zoodsma, Barbara Jo: SEE ALSO Baugh et al., 1989. (detail)
 
 
Zoodsma, Barbara Jo (detail)
   
1991
Distribution and behavioral ecology of manatees in southeastern Georgia.
U.S. National Park Service, Research/Resources Management Report SER-91/03: xiii + 150. 29 figs. Appendices. Dec. 1991.
 
 
Zoodsma, Barbara Jo; Lefebvre, Lynn W.; Cofer-Shabica, Stephen V. (detail)
   
1991
Manatee ecology and conservation in coastal Georgia. In: S. V. Cofer-Shabica (ed.), Biological and physical aspects of dredging, Kings Bay, Georgia.
New York, Amer. Soc. Civil Engineers (vii + 159): 15-17.
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Zuidema, Henry P. (detail)
   
1970
Fossil sea mammal.
Sea Frontiers 16(1): 20-24. 5 figs. Jan.-Feb. 1970.
–Repr.: Bull. So. Calif. Pal. Soc. 2(4): 2-4. Pop. acc. of the Stanford (California) specimen of Paleoparadoxia and related forms. The figs. include reconstructions by C. A. Repenning.
Zweers, A.: SEE De Jong et al. (detail)

Daryl P. Domning, Research Associate, Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560, and Laboratory of Evolutionary Biology, Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, Howard University, Washington, D.C. 20059.
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