Eurotherium Temporal range: Eocene Early to Middle | |
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skull and mandible of Eurotherium theriodis | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | † Hyaenodonta |
Superfamily: | † Hyaenodontoidea |
Family: | † Hyaenodontidae |
Genus: | † Eurotherium Polly and Lange-Badré, 1993 [1] |
Type species | |
†Eurotherium theriodis Van Valen, 1965 | |
Species | |
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Eurotherium ("european beast") is an extinct paraphyletic genus of placental mammals from the extinct family Hyaenodontidae that lived from the Early to Middle Eocene in Europe. [1] [6] [7]
Based on the size of its turbinates, E. theriodis is believed to have been a scavenger. [8]