Hukoutherium
Extinct genus of mammals
| Hukoutherium Temporal range: Paleocene-Eocene | |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | †Mesonychia |
| Family: | †Mesonychidae |
| Genus: | †Hukoutherium Chow, Chang, Wang & Ting, 1973 |
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Hukoutherium is an extinct genus of mesonychid which lived during the middle Paleocene in Asia and was named by Chow. The genus became extinct during the Eocene.
Hukoutherium is known from a mandible with incisors, canines, and broken dentaries, a crushed crania and fragmentary bones.
Species
- Genus Hukoutherium
- Hukoutherium ambigum
- Hukoutherium shimemensis
External links
- Paleo Data
- Taxamony
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Mesonychians
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Clade: Euungulata
- Order: Mesonychia
- Eoconodon
- Goniacodon
- Stelocyon
- Triisodon
- Ankalagon
- Dissacus
- Guilestes
- Harpagolestes
- Hessolestes
- Hukoutherium
- Jiangxia
- Mesonyx
- Mongolestes
- Mongolonyx
- Pachyaena
- Sinonyx
- Synoplotherium
- Yantanglestes
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