Xylotitan

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Xylotitan
Temporal range: Middle Eocene
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Perissodactyla
Family: Brontotheriidae
Genus: Xylotitan
Species:
X. cenosus
Binomial name
Xylotitan cenosus
Mihlbachler & Samuels, 2016

Xylotitan is an extinct genus of brontotheriid that lived in Oregon during the Middle Eocene. It contains the species X. cenosus. [1]

References

  1. Mihlbachler, Matthew C.; Samuels, Joshua X. (November 2016). "A small-bodied species of Brontotheriidae from the middle Eocene Nut Beds of the Clarno Formation, John Day Basin, Oregon" . Journal of Paleontology . 90 (6): 1233–1244. doi:10.1017/jpa.2016.61. ISSN   0022-3360 . Retrieved 6 February 2025 via Cambridge Core.