Embrithopoda
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Embrithopoda ("heavy-footed") is an order of extinct mammals known from Asia, eastern Europe, and northern Africa. Most of the embrithopod genera are known exclusively from jaws and teeth dated from the late Paleocene to the late Eocene, but the order is best known from its terminal member, the elephantine Arsinoitherium.
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Arsinoitherium
| phylum | Chordata | Arsinoitherium were rhinoceros-like herbivores that lived during the late Eocene and the early Oligocene of northern Africa from 36 to 30 million years ago, in areas of tropical rainforest and at the margin of mangrove swamps. A newly discovered species, Arsinoitherium giganteum, lived in Ethiopia ~27 million years ago
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| class | Mammalia | |
| unranked | Paenungulata | |
| order | †Embrithopoda | |
| family | †Arsinoitheriidae | |
| genus | †Arsinoitherium | |
| species | A. zitteli |
Arsinoitherium Skeleton
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