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    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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    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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    naturalist Georges Cuvier in 1804. Although he assigned the species to Anoplotherium, he recognized that it differed from A. commune by its dentition and...
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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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    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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    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    Cuvier's 1812 unpublished version of the skeletal reconstruction of Anoplotherium commune with muscles.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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    Skeleton of Anoplotherium commune, an early artiodactyl with unusual features such as a long tail...
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    palaeothere perissodactyl Palaeotherium and the anoplotheriid artiodactyl Anoplotherium, both of which were described earliest after the former two genera,...
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    established two ungulate genera from the Paris Basin named Palaeotherium and Anoplotherium based on fragmentary remains alone, although more complete remains were...
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    "Palaeotherium" minor (= Plagiolophus minor), "Anoplotherium medium" (= Xiphodon gracilis), and, most famously, Anoplotherium commune. In A. commune, he was able...
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    Anoplotherium was the first fossil artiodactyl genus to be named, with a history dating back to 1804. It lived in Europe as part of the endemic family...
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  • names the perissodactyl Palaeotherium ("old beast") and the artiodactyl Anoplotherium ("unarmed beast"). Gini-Newman, Garfield; Graham, Elizabeth (2001)....
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    in his studies that it had dentition similar to the anoplotheriids Anoplotherium and Diplobune but differed from them by a deep preorbital fossa, where...
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  • 1812 skeletal and muscular reconstruction of Anoplotherium commune by Georges Cuvier based on fossil remains from the Paris Basin...
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    has historically depended on fossil reconstructions, such as that of Anoplotherium commune by Georges Cuvier in 1812. For instance, its reconstruction...
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  • The hypothesis has not been tested, but other anoplotheriines such as Anoplotherium and Diplobune are also suggested to have unusual adaptations as well...
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    browsing adaptations of the unusual Late Eocene–earliest Oligocene tylopod Anoplotherium (Artiodactyla, Mammalia)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society...
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    "Palaeotherium" minor (= Plagiolophus minor), "Anoplotherium medium" (= Xiphodon gracilis), and, most famously, Anoplotherium commune based on known fossil remains...
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  • significant gap of anoplotheriines in MP17a-MP17b, the derived anoplotheriids Anoplotherium and Diplobune made their first appearances in western Europe by MP18...
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    cattle-like Merycotherium, the tapir-like Pachydermatous lophiodon, the anoplotherium (which is described to be a compound of a horse, a rhinoceros, a camel...
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    facultative bipedalism in P. magnum unlike in the contemporary artiodactyl Anoplotherium. The long neck of P. magnum brings the possibilities of it browsing...
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    representing the eulipothyphlan fauna. The speciose genus Palaeotherium plus Anoplotherium and the families Xiphodontidae and Amphimerycidae were observed to disappear...
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    established the species Palaeotherium magnum. He also erected the genus Anoplotherium in recognition of its differing dentition from that of Palaeotherium...
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    concluded that it must have had affinities with anoplotheriids like Anoplotherium and Diplobune based on dentition and gave another binomial name Uphelognatos...
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  • significant gap of anoplotheriines in MP17a-MP17b, the derived anoplotheriids Anoplotherium and Diplobune made their first appearances in western Europe by MP18...
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  • previously described by the French naturalist Georges Cuvier in 1822 as Anoplotherium (Dichobune) obliquum, to Haplomeryx as H? obliquus. H? obliquus is known...
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