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Quick facts for kids Palaeothere Temporal range: 55–28Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N Early Eocene to early Oligocene

Palaeotherium curtum skull
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Perissodactyla
Suborder:	Hippomorpha
Family:	†Palaeotheriidae
Genera
Palaeotherium Hyracotherium Anchilophus Lophiotherium Pachynolophus Propachynolophus

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.

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.

Genera:

Palaeotherium
Hyracotherium
Anchilophus
Lophiotherium
Propachynolophus

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Plagiolophus annectens jaw

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