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    Palaeotherium is the type genus of the extinct perissodactyl family Palaeotheriidae, a Palaeogene-exclusive lineage within the superfamily Equoidea that...
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    Plagiolophus is an extinct genus of herbivore. The genus Plagiolophus is documented, almost solely in Western Europe, from the middle Eocene up to the...
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  • Thumbnail for Research history of Palaeotherium
    The research history of Palaeotherium is complicated given its extensive fossil record and lengthy taxonomic history, with the earliest record of its...
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    Europe are early-aged mammals such as the palaeothere perissodactyl Palaeotherium and the anoplotheriid artiodactyl Anoplotherium, both of which were...
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    discoveries of different layers of fossils, such as those containing Palaeotherium and Anoplotherium (pictured), by Georges Cuvier led him to believe that...
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    small species like Palaeotherium lautricense, which is estimated to have only weighed 36 kg (79 lb) to large species like Palaeotherium magnum, which are...
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    Restoration of Palaeotherium, a palaeothere genus first formally described in 1804...
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    After describing Palaeotherium, he wrote about the next set of fossils that he was able to discern as being different from Palaeotherium based on dentition...
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  • but otherwise were not close analogues. He names the perissodactyl Palaeotherium ("old beast") and the artiodactyl Anoplotherium ("unarmed beast"). Gini-Newman...
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    exhausted. The quarry also yielded Eocene mammal fossils, including Palaeotherium, which were studied by Georges Cuvier. Baron Haussmann, the Prefect...
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    identified by Georges Cuvier as an extinct equine, which he dubbed Palaeotherium, the "ancient animal". His sketch of the entire animal in 1825 was matched...
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    fossils of this extinct artiodactyl and named the genus after describing Palaeotherium, making it one of the first fossil mammal genera to be described as...
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    in the children's zoo which has now been demolished. The models of Palaeotherium represent an extinct Eocene mammal thought by Georges Cuvier to be tapir-like...
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    Propalaeotherium was named by Paul Gervais; its name means "before Palaeotherium". It was considered a member of Palaeotheriidae by Hooker (1986). A...
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    He also established two ungulate genera from the Paris Basin named Palaeotherium and Anoplotherium based on fragmentary remains alone, although more...
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  • fossils were described by Cuvier (1804) and Cuvier (1822) as belonging to Palaeotherium and Lophiodon. In 1845, a jaw assigned to Lophiodon lautricensis was...
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    hedgehogs representing the eulipothyphlan fauna. The speciose genus Palaeotherium plus Anoplotherium and the families Xiphodontidae and Amphimerycidae...
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  • Fejfar & Storch, 2003 Palaeotherium castrense robiacense Franzen, 1968 Palaeotherium crassum robustum Franzen, 1968 Palaeotherium muehlbergi praecursum...
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    differ by dental and postcranial morphologies. He named two genera Palaeotherium and Anoplotherium. 1808 — Cuvier and Alexandre Brongniart publish preliminary...
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    and extant mammals based on dental evidence. He named the two genera Palaeotherium and Anoplotherium. Later in 1807, he wrote about two incomplete skeletons...
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    to be a "gigantic and most extraordinary pachyderm", allied to the Palaeotherium, but with affinities to the llama and the camel. The fossils at Punta...
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  • palaeotheres (Propalaeotherium, Anchilophus, Lophiotherium, Plagiolophus, Palaeotherium), hyrachyid Chasmotherium, lophiodont Lophiodon, dichobunids Hyperdichobune...
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  • and Cynohyaenodon, miacids Paramiacis and Quercygale, palaeotheres (Palaeotherium, Plagiolophus, Anchilophus), lophiodont Lophiodon, cebochoerids Cebochoerus...
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  • Family Palaeotheriidae Genus Hyracotherium Genus Propalaeotherium Genus Palaeotherium Family Equidae Genus Miohippus Genus Orohippus Genus Mesohippus Subfamily...
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    palaeotheres (Propalaeotherium, Anchilophus, Lophiotherium, Plagiolophus, Palaeotherium), hyrachyid Chasmotherium, lophiodont Lophiodon, dichobunids Hyperdichobune...
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    (three-toed) hooves, which would have separated it from the other "pachyderm" Palaeotherium. Based on the hooves and dentition, he concluded that Anoplotherium...
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    genus of Pachyderm", which he named Paloplotherium, falling between Palaeotherium and Anoplotherium, during his presentation of the same fossils. In 1852...
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    and Cynohyaenodon, miacids Paramiacis and Quercygale, palaeotheres (Palaeotherium, Plagiolophus, Anchilophus), lophiodont Lophiodon, cebochoerids Cebochoerus...
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  • Butselia biveri, Cryptopithecus, Eotalpa anglica, Glamys fordi, Palaeotherium curtum, Palaeotherium muehlbergi, Paradoxonycteris tobieni, Pseudoltinomys cuvieri...
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    (reclassified as an aceratherine rhinocerotid Hoploaceratherium), and "Palaeotherium" (the referred equid species now known as belonging to an anchitherine...
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