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Definition of Palaeotherium

Palaeotherium
Paleotherium Pa`le*o*the"ri*um, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? ancient + ? beast.] (Paleon.) An extinct genus of herbivorous Tertiary mammals, once supposed to have resembled the tapir in form, but now known to have had a more slender form, with a long neck like that of a llama. [Written also Pal[ae]otherium.]

Meaning of Palaeotherium from wikipedia

- Palaeotherium is an extinct genus of equoid that lived in Europe and possibly the Middle East from the Middle Eocene to the Early Oligocene. It is the...
- The anatomy of Palaeotherium has been historically well-studied due to at least several of its species being known from common and good fossil material...
- now-lost skeleton originally from the Paris Basin. It was classified to Palaeotherium the same year but was reclassified to the subgenus Plagiolophus, named...
- The research history of Palaeotherium is complicated given its extensive fossil record and lengthy taxonomic history, with the earliest record of its...
- small species like Palaeotherium lautricense, which is estimated to have only weighed 36 kg (79 lb) to large species like Palaeotherium magnum, which are...
- in the children's zoo which has now been demolished. The models of Palaeotherium represent an extinct Eocene mammal thought by Georges Cuvier to be tapir-like...
- Stu, a Glyptodon. Joe Bologna as Mr. Start, a Palaeotherium Renée Taylor as Mrs. Start, a Palaeotherium Alex ****van as James, the aardvark. Alan Tudyk...
- 1888 illustration (left) and photograph (right) of a Palaeotherium magnum skeleton at the National Museum of Natural History, France...
- identified by Georges Cuvier as an extinct equine, which he dubbed Palaeotherium, the "ancient animal". His sketch of the entire animal in 1825 was matched...
- Europe are early-aged mammals such as the palaeothere perissodactyl Palaeotherium and the anoplotheriid artiodactyl Anoplotherium, both of which were...