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Schizotheriines are one of the two
subfamilies of the
extinct family Chalicotheriidae, a
group of
herbivorous odd-toed
ungulate (perissodactyl) mammals...
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Schizotherium is an
extinct genus of
schizotheriine chalicothere known from the
Oligocene of
Europe and Asia. Coombs,
Margery Chalifoux (1978). "Additional...
- two
species of
chalicothere are
known from
complete skeletons, the
schizotheriine Moropus from the
early Miocene of
North America, and the chalicotheriine...
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existing for
approximately 6.8
million years.
Moropus belonged to the
schizotheriine subfamily of chalicotheres, and has the best
fossil record of any member...
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Margery C.; Rothschild,
Bruce M. (Jul 1999). "Phalangeal
Fusion in
Schizotheriine Chalicotheres (Mammalia, Perissodactyla)".
Journal of Paleontology....
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domed head that
would have
resembled those of
pachycephalosaurs and the
schizotheriine Tylocephalonyx. It is
believed that
males often competed by butting...
- long
forelimbs and
short hind
limbs of a chalicothere, like
other schizotheriines, it did not walk on its knuckles. It was
similar to the
North American...
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notable for a dome-shaped skull, a
feature found in some
other schizotheriine chalicotheres but most
developed in this genus.
Adequate fossil material...
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generally regarded as an
indicator of
forested environments.
Unlike schizotheriines,
chalicotheriines were
typically confined to
moist forests with a full...
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locality as one of the few
confirmed cases of the
cooccurrence of
schizotheriine and
chalicotheriine chalicotheres.
Pandolfi et al. (2023)
describe new...
