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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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naturalist Georges Cuvier in 1804.
Although he
designated the
species to
Anoplotherium, he
recognized that it
differed from A.
commune by its
dentition and...
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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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based on his
hypothesis of the
taxon being a
transitional form
between "
Anoplotherium" secundaria,
previously erected by
Georges Cuvier in 1822, and Dichobune...
- The
research history of
Anoplotherium spans back to 1804 when
Georges Cuvier first described the
fossils of this
extinct artiodactyl and
named the genus...
- "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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different layers of fossils, such as
those containing Palaeotherium and
Anoplotherium (pictured), by
Georges Cuvier led him to
believe that
series of catastrophic...
- "Palaeotherium"
minor (=
Plagiolophus minor), "
Anoplotherium medium" (=
Xiphodon gracilis), and, most famously,
Anoplotherium commune. In A. commune, he was able...
- "Palaeotherium"
minor (=
Plagiolophus minor), "
Anoplotherium medium" (=
Xiphodon gracilis), and, most famously,
Anoplotherium commune based on
known fossil remains...
- Cuvier's 1812
unpublished version of the
skeletal reconstruction of
Anoplotherium commune with muscles. Today, the
Paleogene mammal is
thought to have...
