†Phosphatherium Gheerbrant et al. 1996 (proboscidean)
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Mammalia - Proboscidea - Phosphatheriidae
Full reference: E. Gheerbrant, J. Sudre, and H. Cappetta. 1996. A Palaeocene proboscidean from Morocco. Nature 383:68-70
Parent taxon: Phosphatheriidae according to E. Gheerbrandt et al. 2005
See also Gheerbrant et al. 1996, Gheerbrant et al. 2002, McKenna and Bell 1997, Sanders et al. 2010 and Shoshani and Tassy 2005
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Phosphatherium escuilliei
Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser
Distribution: found only at Ouled Abdoun Basin (Phosphatherium type specimen) (Eocene of Morocco)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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