Eritherium
Eritherium is an extinct genus of early Proboscidea found in the Ouled Abdoun basin (early Thanetian age), Morocco. It lived about 60 million years ago. It was first named by Emmanuel Gheerbrant in 2009 and the type species is Eritherium azzouzorum. Eritherium is the oldest, smallest and most primitive known elephant relative.
| Eritherium Temporal range: Selandian, | |
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| Jaw of Eritherium azzouzorum | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Proboscidea |
| Genus: | †Eritherium Gheerbrant, 2009 |
| Species: | †E. azzouzorum |
| Binomial name | |
| †Eritherium azzouzorum Gheerbrant, 2009 | |
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