Prolibytherium

Prolibytherium
Temporal range: Burdigalian
~16.9–15.97 Ma
Prolibytherium magnieri restoration, with female (left) and male (right)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Prolibytheriidae
Genus: Prolibytherium
Arambourg, 1961
Type species
Prolibytherium magnieri
Species
  • P. fusum Danowitz et al., 2016
  • P. magnieri Arambourg, 1961

Prolibytherium is an extinct genus of prolibytheriid artiodactyl ungulate native to Middle Miocene North Africa and Pakistan, from around 16.9 to 15.97 million years ago. Fossils of Prolibytherium were found in the Marada Formation of Libya, Vihowa Formation of Pakistan, and the Moghara Formation of Egypt.[1]

  1. ^ "Prolibytherium". Fossilworks. Retrieved 13 June 2014.