Propalaeotherium Gervais 1849
- Dataset
- The Palaeotheriidae (Equoidea, Perissodactyla, Mammalia) from the Eocene fauna of Aumelas (Hérault department, France)
- Rank
- GENUS
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Perissodactyla
- family
- Palaeotheriidae
- genus
- Propalaeotherium
description
dentition; upper molars with more or less pronounced mesostyle; upper premolars non-molariform, lacking hypocone; mesostyle on P 3 - 4 / and entoconid on P / 3 - 4 only present in youngest species; lower cheek teeth without paraconid; lower molars with rounded crescentic lobes and twinned prominent rnetaconid; lingual cingula on upper molars, usually weak or absent; lower cheek teeth with more or less developed labial cingula, but with weak or absent lingual cingula; rather short postcanine diastema. Propalaeotherium differs from Eurohippus by a wider skull and narrower ramus with regard to its height.
materials_examined
TYPE SPECIES. — Propalaeotherium isselanum (Cuvier, 1824). INCLUDED SPECIES. — Pr. argentonicum Gervais, 1849, Pr. gaudryi (Lemoine, 1878) (synonym of Propachynolophus gaudryi Lemoine, 1878; see Remy 2017), Pr. hassiacum Haupt, 1925, Pr. helveticum Savage, Russell, Louis, 1965, Pr. voigti Matthes, 1977.