Moeritherium
Moeritherium ("the beast from Lake Moeris") is an extinct genus of primitive proboscideans. These prehistoric mammals are related to the elephant and, more distantly, sea cows and hyraxes. They lived during the Eocene epoch.
| Moeritherium Temporal range: Late Eocene, | |
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| M. lyonsi skull front view, at the Royal BC Museum | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Proboscidea |
| Family: | †Moeritheriidae C.W. Andrews, 1906 |
| Genus: | †Moeritherium C.W. Andrews, 1901 |
| Type species | |
| Moeritherium lyonsi Andrews, 1901 | |
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