Deperetellidae

Deperetellidae Temporal range: Eocene
Skull of Irenolophus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Perissodactyla
Superfamily:	Tapiroidea
Family:	† Deperetellidae Radinsky, 1965
Genera
† Bahinolophus † Deperetella † Irenolophus † Teleolophus

Deperetellidae is an extinct family of herbivorous odd-toed ungulates containing the genera Bahinolophus , Deperetella , Irenolophus , ^[1] and Teleolophus . Their closest living relatives are tapirs. ^[2] Deperetellids are known from the Middle Eocene deposits of China, Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan and Myanmar. ^[3]

Most deperetellids are known by fragmentary jaws and skull elements. ^[3] Members of Deperetellidae are medium to large-sized animals distinguished from other tapiroids by their high crowned and very bilophodont molars. ^{[4] [3]}

References

1. Bai, B.; Meng, J.; et al. (November 2019). "A new early Eocene deperetellid tapiroid illuminates the origin of Deperetellidae and the pattern of premolar molarization in Perissodactyla". PLOS ONE. 14 (11) e0225045. Bibcode:2019PLoSO..1425045B. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0225045 . PMC   6839866 . PMID   31703104.
2. Tsubamoto, T.; Egi, N.; Takai, M.; Sein, C.; Maung, M. (2005). "Middle Eocene ungulate mammals from Myanmar: A review with description of new specimens" (PDF). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 50 (1): 117–138.
3. Bai Bin, Wang Yuan-Qing, Meng Jin (2018). "Postcranial morphology of Middle Eocene deperetellid Teleolophus (Perissodactyla, Tapiroidea) from Shara Murun region of the Erlian Basin, Nei Mongol, China". Vertebrata PalAsiatica. 56 (3): 193-215. doi:10.19615/j.cnki.1000-3118.171214.
4. Lucas, Spencer G. (2002). Chinese Fossil Vertebrates. Columbia University Press. p. 217. ISBN   978-0-231-50461-4.