Palaeothere

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Palaeotheres are an extinct group of herbivorous mammals. They are related to tapirs and rhinoceros, and probably ancestral to horses. They ranged across Europe and Asia during the Eocene and Oligocene 55–28 million years ago.

Palaeothere
Temporal range: Early Eocene to early Oligocene
Palaeotherium curtum skull.JPG
Palaeotherium curtum skull
Scientific classification e
Unrecognized taxon (fix): Palaeotheriidae
Genera

They were small to medium-sized. They lived in dense forests. They ate soft leaves, shoots, berries, and leaf matter picked up from the forest floor.

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