Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Chalicotheriidae
Alternative spelling: Schizotherini
Full reference: W. J. Holland and O. A. Peterson. 1913. The osteology of the Chalicotheroidea, with special reference to a mounted skeleton of Moropus elatus Marsh, now installed in the Carnegie Museum. Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum 3(2):189-406
Parent taxon: Chalicotheriidae according to D. Geraads et al. 2007
See also Butler 1965, Colbert 1935, Holland and Peterson 1913 and Prothero and Schoch 1989
Sister taxa: Chalicotheriinae, Eomoropus, Limognitherium, Macrotheriinae, Moropodinae, Moropus, Pernatherium, Schizotherium
Subtaxa: Ancylotheriopus Ancylotherium Borissiakia Macrotherium Metaschizotherium Phyllotillon Tylocephalonyx
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Ethiopia (8 collections)
• Pliocene of Kenya (1), South Africa (1), Tanzania (5)
• Miocene of Afghanistan (1), Bulgaria (2), China (7), Germany (1), Greece (11), Kenya (3), the Russian Federation (1), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Turkey (2), United States (22: Delaware, Montana, Nebraska, Oregon, Utah, Wyoming)
• Arikareean of Panama (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Kazakhstan (1)
• Oligocene of Georgia (1), Kazakhstan (1)
Total: 70 collections each including a single occurrence