Embrithopoda

order of mammals

Embrithopoda ("heavy-footed") is an order of extinct mammals from Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe.

Arsinoitherium Zitteli

Overview

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Most of the embrithopod genera are known exclusively from jaws and teeth dated from the late Paleocene to the late Eocene; however, the order is best known from its terminal member [needs simplifying] the elephantine Arsinoitherium.