Embrithopoda
Sign in to saveEmbrithopoda ("heavy-footed" in Ancient Greek) is an order of extinct paenungulate mammals known from Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe. Most of the embrithopod genera are known exclusively from jaws and teeth dated from the late Paleocene to the late Eocene; however, the order is best known from its terminal member, the large Arsinoitherium.
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- Parent taxon
- Paenungulata
- Image
- Arsinoitherium zitteli.jpg
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- Commons category
- Embrithopoda
- taxon name
- Embrithopoda
- taxon rank
- order
- topic's main category
- Category:Embrithopods
- taxon common name
- 重腳目
- start time
- 56000000-0
- end time
- 28000000-0
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Embrithopoda ("heavy-footed" in Ancient Greek) is an order of extinct paenungulate mammals known from Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe. Most of the embrithopod genera are known exclusively from jaws and teeth dated from the late Paleocene to the late Eocene; however, the order is best known from its terminal member, the large Arsinoitherium.
==Description== While embrithopods bore a superficial resemblance to rhinoceroses, their horns had bony cores covered in keratinized skin. Not all embrithopods possessed horns, either. Despite their appearance, they have been regarded as related to elephants or sirenians, not perissodactyls.
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