Indolophus
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| Indolophus Temporal range: Early Eocene
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| Genus: | Indolophus
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| Species: | I. guptai
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| Indolophus guptai Pilgrim, 1925
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Indolophus is an extinct genus of perissodactyl belonging to the clade Tapiromorpha, which includes modern-day tapirs. Fossils have been found in Eocene deposits of Myanmar.[1]
Description
[edit | edit source]Indolophus can be distinguished from other tapiromorphs in the characteristics of the upper dentition; it is distinguished from other basal tapiromorphs in having a more developed molar and protolophid and hypolophid. Indolophus is more primitive than tapiroids due to the lophodont dentiton and the absence of lingual and buccal cingula and molar metaconule.[2] I. guptai has been estimated to have had a body mass of approximately 20.7 kg.[3]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ G. E. Pilgrim. 1925. The Perissodactyla of the Eocene of Burma. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India 8(3):1-28.
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