Chalicotheriidae (redirect from Chalicotheres)
fragmentary to moderately complete. Chalicotheres ranged in size from an antelope to a large draft horse. Chalicotheres are part of the order Perissodactyla...
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million years. Moropus belonged to the schizotheriine subfamily of chalicotheres, and has the best fossil record of any member of this group; numbers...
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with notable extinct groups including the brontotheres, palaeotheres, chalicotheres, and the paraceratheres, with the paraceratheres including the largest...
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many members of Perissodactyla, was adapted to browsing, though the chalicotheres were uniquely adapted to do so among ungulates. Its arms were long and...
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lie outside the clade containing chalicotheres, rhinoceroses, tapirs and horses, or more closely related to chalicotheres, rhinoceroses and tapirs than to...
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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...
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extinct Chalicothere. In the 1930s, Louis Leakey suggested that Nandi Bear descriptions matched that of the Chalicothere, though chalicotheres were herbivores...
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dimorphic, like many other chalicotheres. While it had the typical long forelimbs and short hind limbs of a chalicothere, like other schizotheriines...
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evolve to replace the extinct Hyaenodon, entelodonts and bear-dogs. The chalicotheres survived the Oligocene epoch. A new genus of entelodont called Daeodon...
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The early 19th century also saw confusions between anoplotheriids and chalicotheres as a result of similar traits that caused palaeontologists at the time...
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