''Amphirhagatherium'' is an extinct

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artiodactyl Artiodactyls are placental mammals belonging to the order Artiodactyla ( , ). Typically, they are ungulates which bear weight equally on two (an even number) of their five toes (the third and fourth, often in the form of a hoof). The other t ...

that lived in

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during the late

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to Early

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. The dentition of ''Amphirhagatherium'' suggests that the genus had a mixed diet of leaves and fruits likely eaten at ground level. Caniniform anterior teeth suggest that there may have been a small carnivorous dietary component, or that they were used for intraspecific combat.

Distribution

;Eocene * Creechbarrow Limestone, Upper Headon Beds and Bembridge Marls Formations, England * Frohnstetten, Germany *

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, Germany *

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and

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, France ;Oligocene * Bembridge Marls, England

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q474950 Ancodonta Eocene mammals of Europe Oligocene mammals of Europe Paleogene England Fossils of England Eocene France Fossils of France Eocene Germany Fossils of Germany Fossil taxa described in 1908 Taxa named by Charles Depéret Prehistoric Artiodactyla genera Eocene Artiodactyla Oligocene Artiodactyla