Name - Phosphatherium escuilliei

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:1323966 [metadata]

Reported Taxonomic Ranks

Species

Reported Taxonomic Hierarchies

Recent Publications

• Phosphatherium escuilliei from the Thanetian of the Ouled Abdoun basin (Morocco), oldest known proboscidean (Mammalia) from Africa.
• The oldest known proboscidean and the role of Africa in the radiation of modern orders of placentals.
• New data on Phosphatherium escuilliei (Mammalia, Proboscidea) from the early Eocene of Morocco, and its impact on the phylogeny of Proboscidea and lophodont ungulates.

Search name in:

back