Moropus elatus skeleton at the National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC
Reconstruction of the head of M.elatus
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Order:
Perissodactyla
Family:
†Chalicotheriidae
Subfamily:
†Schizotheriinae
Genus:
†Moropus Marsh, 1877
Species
M. distans Marsh, 1877
M. elatus Marsh, 1877
M. hollandi Peterson, 1907
M. matthewi Holland & Peterson, 1913
M. merriami Peterson, 1914
M. oregonensis Leidy, 1873
M. senex Marsh, 1877
Moropus (meaning "slow foot") is an extinct genus of large perissodactyl ("odd-toed" ungulate) mammal in the chalicothere family. They were endemic to North America during the Miocene from ~20.4–13.6 Mya, existing for approximately 6.8 million years. Moropus belonged to the schizotheriine subfamily of chalicotheres, and has the best fossil record of any member of this group; numbers of individuals, including complete skeletons, have been found.
The closest extant relatives of Moropus are other perissodactyls: horses, rhinos, and tapirs.[2]
^"Moropus in the Paleobiology Database". Fossilworks. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
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closest extant relatives of Moropus are other perissodactyls: horses, rhinos, and tapirs. Like other chalicotheres, Moropus differed from typical ungulates...
Schizotheriinae and the Chalicotheriinae. Schizotherine chalicotheres such as Moropus lived in a variety of forest, woodland, and savannah habitats in Asia,...
and Samos as Ancylotherium. In the Americas, the names Morothorium and Moropus have been applied to similar bones, in the belief that they indicated Xenarthrans...
thought to pertain to at least two different species. Paleontology portal Moropus "Pittsburgh Boasts of Complete Skeleton of the Chalicotherium". The San...
reached by the Bering land bridge. The best-known schizotheriine genus is Moropus. The last survivor of the group was traditionally thought to be Nestoritherium...
did not walk on its knuckles. It was similar to the North American genus Moropus. In at least some individuals of A. pentelicum the frontal bone of the...
sitting in lush forests, similar to modern gorillas and giant pandas. Moropus Schizotheriinae Palaeontology portal Coombs, Margery C. (13 Feb 2009)....
small gazelle-like camels Stenomylus, the large browsing chalicothere Moropus, several species of predatory coyote- to wolf-sized amphicyonids that lived...
005 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Early Eocene to Middle Pleistocene Moropus elatus at the National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC Scientific...
Subfamily: †Schizotheriinae Genus: †Borissiakia Butler, 1965 Type species †Borissiakia betpakdalensis originally Moropus betpakdalensis Flerov, 1938...
extension of the forelegs. The best-known genera include Chalicotherium and Moropus. Chalicotherioidea died out in the Pleistocene. Rhinocerotoidea (rhino...
(1994) U-shaped orientation of Hunter-Schreger Bands in the enamel of Moropus (Mammalia: Chalicotheriidae) in comparison to some other Perissodactyla...
or in butting or head-to-body battering contests. Paleontology portal Moropus Chalicotherium Ancylotherium Kalimantsia "Tylocephalonyx in the Paleobiology...
to the separate genus Megatapirus. One of the biggest chalicotheres was Moropus. It stood about 2.4 metres (8 ft) tall at the shoulder. Late Eocene perissodactyls...
Palaeocastor, land beavers that dug large corkscrew-shaped burrows (Daemonelix). Moropus, a chalicothere which are relatives of rhinos and horses. Merychyus, a...
leaves and shoots compared to a more abrasive diet of twigs and bark. Moropus Ancylotherium Palaeontology portal Werdelin, Lars; Sanders, William Joseph...
County, Nebraska, a deposit of Miocene herbivores and carnivores such as Moropus elatus, Cynelos, Cephalogale, and a number of Artiodactyla. Martin Canyon...
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