Ancylotherium hellenicum Koufos 2012 (chalicothere)

Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Chalicotheriidae

Origin of the name. Hellas, the name of the country found.

Full reference: G. D. Koufos. 2012. New material of Chalicotheriidae (Perissodactyla, Mammalia) from the Late Miocene of Axios Valley, Macedonia (Greece) with the description of a new species. Annales de Paléontologie 98(3):203-224

Belongs to Ancylotherium according to G. D. Koufos 2012

Sister taxon: Ancylotherium pentelicum

Type specimen: PNT-160, a skull. Its type locality is Pentalophos 1, which is in a Vallesian terrestrial conglomerate/sandstone in the Nea Messimvria Formation of Greece.

Ecology: ground dwelling browser

Distribution: found only at Pentalophos 1

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