Phosphatherium

Phosphatherium
Temporal range: Late Paleocene to Ypresian
Fossil
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Proboscidea
Family: †Numidotheriidae
Genus: †Phosphatherium
Gheerbrant, Sudre & Cappetta, 1996[1]
Species:
†P. escuillei
Binomial name
†Phosphatherium escuillei
Gheerbrant, Sudre & Cappetta, 1996[1]

Phosphatherium escuillei is a basal proboscidean that lived from the Late Paleocene (early Thanetian some 59 Ma) to the early stages of the Ypresian age.[2] Research has suggested that Phosphatherium existed during the Eocene period.[3]

  1. ^ a b Gheerbrant, E.; Sudre, J.; Cappetta, H. (1996). "A Palaeocene proboscidean from Morocco". Nature. 383 (6595): 68–71. Bibcode:1996Natur.383...68G. doi:10.1038/383068a0. S2CID 4362199.
  2. ^ http://www3.planetarioroma.it/content/download/4908/62991/file/637_638.pdf. Archived 2016-03-05 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Seiffert, Erik R. (2007). "A new estimate of afrotherian phylogeny based on simultaneous analysis of genomic, morphological, and fossil evidence". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 7 (1): 224. Bibcode:2007BMCEE...7..224S. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-7-224. PMC 2248600. PMID 17999766.