Elomeryx
Appearance
Elomeryx Temporal range:
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Elomeryx armatus | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | †Anthracotheriidae |
Subfamily: | †Bothriodontinae |
Genus: | †Elomeryx Marsh, 1894 |
Type species | |
†Elomeryx armatus | |
Species | |
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Elomeryx is an
anthracotheres. The genus was extremely widespread, first being found in Asia in the middle Eocene, in Europe during the latest Eocene, and having spread to North America by the early Oligocene.[1] The closest living relatives of the Elomeryx are bovids, suids, and cetaceans
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Elomeryx was about 1.5 metres (4.9 ft) in body length, and had a long, vaguely
incisors ideal for pulling and cropping water plants. Elomeryx had five-toed hind legs and four-toed front legs, resulting in wide feet which made it easier to walk on soft mud. It probably had similar habits to the modern hippopotamus, to which it may have been related.[2]
References
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