Tapiroidea is a superfamily of perissodactyls which includes the modern tapirs and their extinct relatives. Taxonomically, they are placed in suborder...

emerged in the Middle Eocene; five species survive to the present day. Tapiroidea reached their greatest diversity in the Eocene, when several families...

Vulnerable. The tapirs have a number of extinct relatives in the superfamily Tapiroidea. The closest extant relatives of the tapirs are the other odd-toed ungulates...

Family †Hyracodontidae Family Rhinocerotidae: rhinoceroses Superfamily Tapiroidea Family †Helaletidae Family †Isectolophidae Family †Lophiodontidae Family...

Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Perissodactyla Superfamily: Tapiroidea Family: †Helaletidae Osborn, 1892 Genera †Colodon †Dilophodon †Helaletes...

Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Perissodactyla Superfamily: Tapiroidea Family: †Helaletidae Genus: †Heptodon Cope 1882 Species †H. calciculus...

morphology of Middle Eocene deperetellid Teleolophus (Perissodactyla, Tapiroidea) from Shara Murun region of the Erlian Basin, Nei Mongol, China". Vertebrata...

F Y et al., 2017. New material of Eocene Helaletidae (Perissodactyla, Tapiroidea) from the Irdin Manha Formation of the Erlian Basin, Inner Mongolia, China...

University. His works include "Origin and early evolution of North American Tapiroidea", "The fossil record of primate brain evolution", and the textbook The...

Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 277(4): 311–322. M. Colbert and R. Schoch 1998. Tapiroidea and other moropomorphs. In: C. Janis, K. Scott, L. Jacobs, (eds) Evolution...