Palaeoamasiidae or Palaeoamasinae
is an extinct taxon of
embrithopod mammals that have been found in
Romania and
Anatolia where they lived on the shores of the
Tethys Ocean.
Classification
* Palaeoamasiidae
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Hypsamasia
''Hypsamasia'' is an extinct embrithopod mammal that lived during the middle Eocene. Dental remains of this herbivore have been found in the Kartal Formation near the village Saribeylar (, paleocoordinates ) north of Ankara in what is today An ...
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Palaeoamasia
''Palaeoamasia'' is an extinct herbivorous paenungulate mammal of the embrithopod order, making it distantly related to elephants, sirenians, and hyraxes. ''Palaeoamasia'' fossils have been found in Turkish deposits of the Çeltek Formation, d ...
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Crivadiatherium
''Crivadiatherium'' is an extinct genus of Palaeoamasiidae, which fossil remains—teeth and mandible fragments—have been discovered in the Crivadia site in the Hațeg depression, Romania. The age of the Crivadia site is not clear, but seems t ...
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Radulesco, Iliesco &Iliesco 1976
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Embrithopods
Eocene mammals
Eocene first appearances
Eocene extinctions
Prehistoric mammal families
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