page_title: List of prehistoric mammals
section_title: Order †Desmostylia
hierarchical_section_title: List of prehistoric mammals / Subclass Theria / Infraclass Eutheria / Order †Desmostylia
caption_attribution_description: Paleoparadoxia tabatai, a desmostylian from the Early Miocene of Japan and North America, pencil drawing, digital coloring.
context_page_description: This is an incomplete list of prehistoric mammals. It does not include extant mammals or recently extinct mammals. For extinct primate species, see: list of fossil primates.
context_section_description: Family †Desmostylidae Osborn 1905 [Cornwallidae Shikama 1957; Paleoparadoxiidae Reinhart 1953] (Miocene–Pliocene)
  Genus †Ounalashkastylus Chiba et al. 2015
  Genus †Seuku Beatty & Cockburn 2015
  Genus †Jamilcotatus Aranda-Manteca & Barnes 1998 [nomen nudum]
  Genus †Vanderhoofius Reinhart 1959
  Genus †Ashoroa Inuzuka 2000
  Subfamily Behemotopsinae Inuzuka 1987
  Genus †Behemotops Domning, Ray & McKenna 1986
  Subfamily Cornwalliinae Shikama 1957
  Genus †Cornwallius Hay 1923
  Subfamily Desmostylinae
  Genus †Desmostylus Marsh 1888 [Desmostylella Nagao 1937; Kronokotherium Pronina 1957]
  Subfamily Paleoparadoxiinae (Reinhart 1959) Barnes 2013
  Genus †Archaeoparadoxia Barnes 2013
  Genus †Paleoparadoxia Reinhart 1959
  Genus †Neoparadoxia Barnes 2013
caption: Paleoparadoxia
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