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Eurotherium
Genus of mammals (fossil) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Eurotherium ("european beast") is an extinct paraphyletic genus of placental mammals from extinct family Hyaenodontidae that lived from the early to middle Eocene in Europe.[1][6][7]
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Eurotherium | |
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skull and mandible of Eurotherium theriodis | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | †Hyaenodonta |
Superfamily: | †Hyaenodontoidea |
Family: | †Hyaenodontidae |
Genus: | †Eurotherium Polly and Lange-Badré, 1993[1] |
Type species | |
†Eurotherium theriodis Van Valen, 1965 | |
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