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(11-29-2019, 05:17 PM)Spalea Wrote: After the arsinoitherium's skull, the arsinoitherium's skeleton...
" Arsinoitherium is an extinct genus of paenungulate mammals belonging to the extinct order Embrithopoda. It is related to elephants, sirenians, hyraxes and the extinct desmostylians. Arsinoitheres were superficially rhinoceros-like herbivores that lived during the late Eocene and the early Oligocene of northern Africa from 36 to 30 million years ago. "
But they weren't the ancestors of the extant rhinos ! I put this post here to follow the previous one, perhaps I have to remove these two last post into an other topic (for example "ancestors of the modern mammals"...), but I don't know how to make it...
Arsinoitheriidae are actually more closely related to elephants according to several sources.