Paleomoropus Radinsky 1964 (odd-toed ungulate)

Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Lophiodontidae

Full reference: L. B. Radinsky. 1964. Paleomoropus, a new early Eocene chalicothere (Mammalia, Perissodactyla), and a revision of Eocene chalicotheres. American Museum Novitates 2179:1-28

Parent taxon: Lophiodontidae according to J. J. Hooker and D. Dashzeveg 2004

See also Colbert and Schoch 1998, Prothero and Schoch 1989 and Radinsky 1964

Sister taxa: Atalonodon, Lophiaspis, Lophiodochoerus, Lophiodontinae, Paralophiodon

Subtaxa: Paleomoropus jepseni

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Type: Paleomoropus jepseni

Ecology: ground dwelling folivore

Distribution: found only at SC-265 (Eocene of Wyoming)

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