Palaeotheriidae
| Palaeotheriidae Temporal range: 55–28 Ma Early Eocene to early Oligocene |
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| Palaeotherium curtum skull | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Perissodactyla |
| Family: | Palaeotheriidae |
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Palaeotheriidae is an extinct family of herbivorous perissodactyl mammals related to tapirs and rhinoceros, and probably ancestral to horses. They ranged across Europe and Asia during the Eocene through Oligocene 55—28 Ma, existing for approximately 27 million years.
Living in dense forests, they ate soft leaves, shoots, berries, and leaf matter picked up from the forest floor.
Palaeothere sizes ranged from 20 to 75 cm (8 to 30 in) at the shoulder, and weighed an estimated 10–30 kg (20–70 lb).
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