Hesperotherium Temporal range: Early to Middle Pleistocene
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Perissodactyla |
Family: | †Chalicotheriidae |
Subfamily: | †Chalicotheriinae |
Genus: | †Hesperotherium Qiu Zhan-Xiang, 2002 |
Species: | †H. sinense
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Binomial name | |
†Hesperotherium sinense Qiu Zhan-Xiang, 2002
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Hesperotherium is a genus of chalicotheres from the Early to Middle Pleistocene of China. Along with Nestoritherium, it was one of the last of the chalicotheres to ever exist. It belonged to the subfamily Chalicotheriinae, which also includes Anisodon, Chalicotherium and Nestoritherium.[1]