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Thuliadanta Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Perissodactyla |
Family: | † Helaletidae |
Genus: | †
Thuliadanta Eberle, 2005 |
Species: | †T. mayri
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Binomial name | |
†Thuliadanta mayri Eberle, 2005
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Thuliadanta is an extinct genus of ceratomorph perissodactyl closely related to modern tapirs that is known from the early Eocene Margaret Formation of Arctic Canada ( Nunavut and Northwest Territories).
Thuliadenta is known from the highest northern latitudinal region of any extinct tapiroid, indicating a possible North American origin for Tapiroidea. Judging from the use of the mountain tapir as an analogue, Thuliadanta may have been a year-round inhabitant in the mild temperate lowland forests of the Eocene High Arctic. [1]
You can help expand this article with text translated from
the corresponding article in German. (June 2022) Click [show] for important translation instructions.
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Thuliadanta Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Perissodactyla |
Family: | † Helaletidae |
Genus: | †
Thuliadanta Eberle, 2005 |
Species: | †T. mayri
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Binomial name | |
†Thuliadanta mayri Eberle, 2005
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Thuliadanta is an extinct genus of ceratomorph perissodactyl closely related to modern tapirs that is known from the early Eocene Margaret Formation of Arctic Canada ( Nunavut and Northwest Territories).
Thuliadenta is known from the highest northern latitudinal region of any extinct tapiroid, indicating a possible North American origin for Tapiroidea. Judging from the use of the mountain tapir as an analogue, Thuliadanta may have been a year-round inhabitant in the mild temperate lowland forests of the Eocene High Arctic. [1]