Anoplotherium is the type genus of the extinct Palaeogene artiodactyl family Anoplotheriidae, which was endemic to western Europe. It lived from the late...
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Xiphodon (redirect from Anoplotherium medium)
naturalist Georges Cuvier in 1804. Although he designated the species to Anoplotherium, he recognized that it differed from A. commune by its dentition and...
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based on his hypothesis of the taxon being a transitional form between "Anoplotherium" secundaria, previously erected by Georges Cuvier in 1822, and Dichobune...
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The research history of Anoplotherium spans back to 1804 when Georges Cuvier first described the fossils of this extinct artiodactyl and named the genus...
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weighted about 20 kg (44 lb), while Anoplotherium is suggested to have been up to 271 kg (597 lb) in weight. Anoplotherium is thought to have been a browser...
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"more strictly marine than the crocodile of the Ganges [the gharial]." Anoplotherium commune is an extinct mammal species from the late Eocene to earliest...
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different layers of fossils, such as those containing Palaeotherium and Anoplotherium (pictured), by Georges Cuvier led him to believe that series of catastrophic...
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other dacrytheriine Dacrytherium and unlike anoplotheriines such as Anoplotherium, Catodontherium had a preorbital fossa. It also had cranial and dental...
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Cuvier's 1812 unpublished version of the skeletal reconstruction of Anoplotherium commune with muscles. Today, the Paleogene mammal is thought to have...
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Georges Cuvier's 1812 skeletal reconstruction of Anoplotherium commune based on fossil remains of the extinct artiodactyl from Montmartre in Paris, France...
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