Deperetellidae Temporal range: Eocene | |
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Skull of Irenolophus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Perissodactyla |
Superfamily: | Tapiroidea |
Family: | †Deperetellidae Radinsky, 1965 |
Genera | |
Deperetellidae is an extinct family of herbivorous odd-toed ungulates containing the genera Bahinolophus, Deperetella, Irenolophus, and Teleolophus. Their closest living relatives are tapirs. Deperetellids are known from the Middle Eocene deposits of China, Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan and Myanmar.
Most deperetellids are known by fragmentary jaws and skull elements. Members of Deperetellidae are medium to large-sized animals distinguished from other tapiroids by their high crowned and very bilophodont molars.
References
- Bai, B.; Meng, J.; et al. (November 2019). "A new early Eocene deperetellid tapiroid illuminates the origin of Deperetellidae and the pattern of premolar molarization in Perissodactyla". PLOS ONE. 14 (11): e0225045. Bibcode:2019PLoSO..1425045B. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0225045. PMC 6839866. PMID 31703104.
- Tsubamoto, T.; Egi, N.; Takai, M.; Sein, C.; Maung, M. (2005). "Middle Eocene ungulate mammals from Myanmar: A review with description of new specimens" (PDF). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 50 (1): 117–138.
- ^ Bai Bin, Wang Yuan-Qing, Meng Jin (2018). "Postcranial morphology of Middle Eocene deperetellid Teleolophus (Perissodactyla, Tapiroidea) from Shara Murun region of the Erlian Basin, Nei Mongol, China". Vertebrata PalAsiatica. 56 (3): 193-215. doi:10.19615/j.cnki.1000-3118.171214.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - Lucas, Spencer G. (2002). Chinese Fossil Vertebrates. Columbia University Press. p. 217. ISBN 978-0-231-50461-4.
Taxon identifiers | |
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Deperetellidae |
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