-
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...
-
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...
- lie
outside the
clade containing chalicotheres, rhinoceroses,
tapirs and horses, or more
closely related to
chalicotheres,
rhinoceroses and
tapirs than to...
- "Paleomoropus, a new
early Eocene chalicothere (Mammalia, Perissodactyla), and a
revision of
Eocene chalicotheres".
American Museum Novitates: 1–28....
- 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...
- dimorphic, like many
other chalicotheres.
While it had the
typical long
forelimbs and
short hind
limbs of a
chalicothere, like
other schizotheriines...
-
extinct Chalicothere. In the 1930s,
Louis Leakey suggested that
Nandi Bear
descriptions matched that of the
Chalicothere,
though chalicotheres were herbivores...
- tapirs, it is now
thought that they were most
likely related to
early chalicotheres,
although they are
distinct from that group. Vautrin, Q.; Tabuce, R...
