Schizotherium is an extinct genus of schizotheriine chalicothere known from the Oligocene of Europe and Asia.[1]
Schizotherium Temporal range:
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S. priscum jaws, National Museum of Natural History, France | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Perissodactyla |
Family: | †Chalicotheriidae |
Subfamily: | †Schizotheriinae |
Genus: | †Schizotherium Gervais, 1876 |
Type species | |
†Schizotherium priscum Gervais, 1876
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References
edit- ^ Coombs, Margery Chalifoux (1978). "Additional Schizotherium Material from China, and a Review of Schizotherium Dentitions (Perissodactyla, Chalicotheriidae)" (PDF). American Museum Novitates (2647): 1–18.