-
fragmentary to
moderately complete.
Chalicotheres ranged in size from an
antelope to a
large draft horse.
Chalicotheres are part of the
order Perissodactyla...
-
million years.
Moropus belonged to the
schizotheriine subfamily of
chalicotheres, and has the best
fossil record of any
member of this group; numbers...
- with
notable extinct groups including the brontotheres, palaeotheres,
chalicotheres, and the paraceratheres, with the
paraceratheres including the largest...
-
genus of
chalicotheres from the
Early to
Middle Pleistocene of China.
Along with Nestoritherium, it was one of the last of the
chalicotheres to ever exist...
-
extinct Chalicothere. In the 1930s,
Louis Leakey suggested that
Nandi Bear
descriptions matched that of the
Chalicothere,
though chalicotheres were herbivores...
- dimorphic, like many
other chalicotheres.
While it had the
typical long
forelimbs and
short hind
limbs of a
chalicothere, like
other schizotheriines...
- for a dome-shaped skull, a
feature found in some
other schizotheriine chalicotheres but most
developed in this genus.
Adequate fossil material is lacking...
-
Guanghe County.
Lower part A
juvenile cranium skull. A ****otheriine
chalicothere Nestoritherium N.
linxiaense Houshan locality,
Guanghe County Lower and...
- many
members of Perissodactyla, was
adapted to browsing,
though the
chalicotheres were
uniquely adapted to do so
among ungulates. Its arms were long and...
-
evolve to
replace the
extinct Hyaenodon,
entelodonts and bear-dogs. The
chalicotheres survived the
Oligocene epoch. A new
genus of
entelodont called Daeodon...
