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Tapiroidea is a
superfamily of
perissodactyls which includes the
modern tapirs and
their extinct relatives. Taxonomically, they are
placed in suborder...
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Meridiolophus is an
extinct genus of
basal tapiromorph that
inhabited China during the
Early Eocene. It is a
monotypic genus that
contains the species...
- Holbrook, Luke T. (1999-09-01). "The
Phylogeny and
classification of
Tapiromorph Perissodactyls (Mammalia)". Cladistics. 15 (3): 331–350. doi:10.1111/j...
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genus was
first reported, and Gr**** lophus, "crest", a
common suffix in
tapiromorph names. The
specific name of the type species, "minor",
comes from Latin...
- S2CID 84061253. Luke T.
Holbrook (2001). "Comparative
osteology of
early Tertiary tapiromorphs (Mammalia, Perissodactyla)".
Zoological Journal of the
Linnean Society...
- History: 516–524. Holbrook, L (1999). "The
Phylogeny and
classification of
Tapiromorph Perissodactyls (Mammalia)" (PDF). Cladistics. 15 (3): 331–350. doi:10...
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distinguished from
other tapiromorphs in the
characteristics of the
upper dentition; it is
distinguished from
other basal tapiromorphs in
having a more developed...
- Kapur,
Vivesh V.; Bajpai,
Sunil (31
December 2015). "Oldest
South Asian tapiromorph (Perissodactyla, Mammalia) from the
Cambay Shale Formation,
western India...
- or even a full family, Indricotheriidae. In a 1999
cladistic study of
tapiromorphs, the
American palaeontologist Luke
Holbrook found indricotheres to be...
- M****, M.C.; Hussain, S.T.; Leinders, J.J.M. (2001). "A New
Isectolophid Tapiromorph (Perissodactyla, Mammalia) from the
Early Eocene of ****stan". Journal...
