Embrithopoda

Embrithopoda ("heavy-footed") is an order of extinct mammals from Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe.

Arsinoitherium Zitteli

Overview

Most of the embrithopod genera are known exclusively from jaws and teeth dated from the late Paleocene to the late Eocene; however, the order is best known from its terminal member the elephantine Arsinoitherium.

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