Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Chalicotheriidae

Full reference: P. M. Butler. 1965. Fossil mammals of Africa No. 18: East African Miocene and Pleistocene chalicotheres. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 10(7):165-237

Parent taxon: Schizotheriinae according to D. R. Prothero and R. M. Schoch 1989

See also Butler 1965 and Carroll 1988

Sister taxa: Ancylotheriopus, Ancylotherium, Macrotherium, Metaschizotherium, Phyllotillon, Tylocephalonyx

Subtaxa: none

Type: Moropus betpakdalensis

Ecology: ground dwelling browser

Distribution: found only at Huangyangtou Village (Miocene of China)

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