chalicotheren.
/ˈkalɪkəʊθɪə/ Palaeontology.
A perissodactyl mammal of the extinct genus Chalicotherium (family Chalicotheriidæ), with a horse-like head and clawed toes.
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1833 J.-J. Kaup Descript. d'Ossements Fossiles de Mammifères ii. ii. 4 Chalicotherium, Kaup. Nouveau genre de Pachydermes... J'ai donné ce nom à deux fort grands Pachydermes.]
1907 Amer. Naturalist 41 733 (title) Preliminary notes on some American chalicotheres... Little is known of the American forms of the Chalicotherioidea,—an extinct family of mammals.
1910 H. F. Osborn Age of Mammals ii. 143 Bartonian Stage... The supposed chalicothere Pernatherium, a very aberrant perissodactyl, is first known at this stage.
1937 Discovery Dec. 372/2 a Chalicothere, that remarkable beast of the late Miocene period, with a horse-like head, and toed, clawed ‘hoofs’, a horse-cum-sloth creature in appearance.
1958 F. E. Zeuner Dating Past (ed. 4) 430 The average period of existence of a genus was 5·6 million years in the line of the horses (Hyracotherium-Equus), 5·9 million years in the chalicotheres.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online December 2018).
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