Definition of Anoplotherium. Meaning of Anoplotherium. Synonyms of Anoplotherium

- Anoplotherium is the type genus of the extinct Palaeogene artiodactyl family Anoplotheriidae, which was endemic to Western Europe. It lived from the Late...
- based on his hypothesis of the taxon being a transitional form between "Anoplotherium" secundaria, previously erected by Georges Cuvier in 1822, and Dichobune...
- naturalist Georges Cuvier in 1804. Although he ****igned the species to Anoplotherium, he recognized that it differed from A. commune by its dentition and...
- 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...
- The research history of Anoplotherium spans back to 1804 when Georges Cuvier first described the fossils of this extinct artiodactyl and named the genus...
- "more strictly marine than the crocodile of the Ganges [the gharial]." Anoplotherium commune is an extinct mammal species from the late Eocene to earliest...
- murinus was previously erected for Anoplotherium, more specifically Dichobune when it was first considered an Anoplotherium subgenus, as A. murinum by the...
- different layers of fossils, such as those containing Palaeotherium and Anoplotherium (pictured), by Georges Cuvier led him to believe that series of catastrophic...
- fossil material along with another extinct contemporary mammal genus Anoplotherium. In both genera, he noticed that their fossils shared some similarities...
- Georges Cuvier's 1812 skeletal reconstruction of Anoplotherium commune based on fossil remains of the extinct artiodactyl from Montmartre in Paris, France...