Phosphatherium | |
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Fossil | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Proboscidea |
Family: | †Numidotheriidae |
Genus: | †Phosphatherium Gheerbrant, Sudre & Cappetta, 1996[1] |
Species: | †P. escuillei
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Binomial name | |
†Phosphatherium escuillei Gheerbrant, Sudre & Cappetta, 1996[1]
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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]