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Phosphatherium : ウィキペディア英語版 | Phosphatherium
''Phosphatherium escuillei'' is a basal proboscidean that lived from the Late Paleocene to the early stages of the Ypresian age 〔http://www3.planetarioroma.it/content/download/4908/62991/file/637_638.pdf.〕 until the early Thanetian some 56 million years ago in North Africa. Research has suggested that Phosphatherium existed during the Eocene period 〔http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/7/224 〕 ''Phosphatherium'' is known primarily from two maxilla fragments dated to the latest Paleocene deposits of the Ouled Abdoun Basin, Morocco, which date from the Thanetian epoch. Not only is it the smallest (estimated to be about 60 cm long and weigh 15 kilograms) member of the proboscidea family, but it is also the oldest in the family.〔http://bsgf.geoscienceworld.org/content/174/3/279.short.〕 Like its later relative, ''Moeritherium'', the animal was probably an amphibious browser that fed on aquatic plants, akin to a very small tapir. Both animals are included in the family Numidotheriidae, together with ''Numidotherium''. The specific name honors the discoverer French paleontologist François Escuillé. == Anatomy ==
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