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Anoplotherium is the type
genus of the
extinct Palaeogene artiodactyl family Anoplotheriidae,
which was
endemic to
Western Europe. It
lived from the Late...
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research history of
Anoplotherium spans back to 1804 when
Georges Cuvier first described the
fossils of this
extinct artiodactyl and
named the genus...
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fossil material along with
another extinct contemporary mammal genus Anoplotherium. In both genera, he
noticed that
their fossils shared some similarities...
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based on his
hypothesis of the
taxon being a
transitional form
between "
Anoplotherium" secundaria,
previously erected by
Georges Cuvier in 1822, and Dichobune...
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murinus was
previously erected for
Anoplotherium, more
specifically Dichobune when it was
first considered an
Anoplotherium subgenus, as A.
murinum by the...
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weighted about 20 kg (44 lb),
while Anoplotherium is
suggested to have been up to 271 kg (597 lb) in weight.
Anoplotherium is
thought to have been a browser...
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Georges Cuvier's 1812
skeletal reconstruction of
Anoplotherium commune based on
fossil remains of the
extinct artiodactyl from
Montmartre in Paris, France...
- "Palaeotherium"
minor (=
Plagiolophus minor), "
Anoplotherium medium" (=
Xiphodon gracilis), and, most famously,
Anoplotherium commune. In A. commune, he was able...
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naturalist Georges Cuvier in 1804.
Although he ****igned the
species to
Anoplotherium, he
recognized that it
differed from A.
commune by its
dentition and...
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palaeothere perissodactyl Palaeotherium and the
anoplotheriid artiodactyl Anoplotherium, both of
which were
described earliest after the
former two genera,...
