Phosphatherium Gheerbrant et al. 1996 (proboscidean)

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

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Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser

Distribution: found only at Ouled Abdoun Basin (Phosphatherium type specimen) (Eocene of Morocco)

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