Numidotherium savagei Court 1995 (proboscidean)

Mammalia - Proboscidea - Numidotheriidae

Full reference: N. Court. 1995. A new species of Numidotherium (Mammalia, Proboscidea) from the Eocene of Libya and the early phylogeny of the Proboscidea. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 15(3):650-671

Belongs to Numidotherium according to N. Court 1995

See also Coster et al. 2012, Delmer 2009 and Sanders et al. 2010

Sister taxon: Numidotherium koholense

Type specimen: 6821/10 (University of Bristol), a mandible. Its type locality is Dur At-Talah (west of the escarpment) - 68.19, which is in a Bartonian/Eocene marginal marine conglomerate in Libya.

Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser

Distribution: found only at Dur At-Talah (west of the escarpment) - 68.19

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