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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...
-
extinct Chalicothere. In the 1930s,
Louis Leakey suggested that
Nandi Bear
descriptions matched that of the
Chalicothere,
though chalicotheres were herbivores...
-
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...
- for a dome-shaped skull, a
feature found in some
other schizotheriine chalicotheres but most
developed in this genus.
Adequate fossil material is lacking...
- "Paleomoropus, a new
early Eocene chalicothere (Mammalia, Perissodactyla), and a
revision of
Eocene chalicotheres".
American Museum Novitates: 1–28....
- dimorphic, like many
other chalicotheres.
While it had the
typical long
forelimbs and
short hind
limbs of a
chalicothere, like
other schizotheriines...
-
evolve to
replace the
extinct Hyaenodon,
entelodonts and bear-dogs. The
chalicotheres survived the
Oligocene epoch. A new
genus of
entelodont called Daeodon...
- has a
shorter muzzle than the horse-like
shapes of the rest of the
chalicotheres. It also has a
domed head that
would have
resembled those of pachycephalosaurs...
- many
members of Perissodactyla, was
adapted to browsing,
though the
chalicotheres were
uniquely adapted to do so
among ungulates. Its arms were long and...
