Omanitherium
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Scientific classification
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Proboscidea |
| Family: | †Barytheriidae |
| Genus: | †Omanitherium Seiffert et al., 2012 |
| Species: | †O. dhofarensis
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| †Omanitherium dhofarensis Seiffert et al., 2012
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Omanitherium(meaningOman beast) is agenusof an extinct genus of barytheriidproboscideanthat lived during the earlyOligocenein Oman. It belongs to the family Barytheriidae, which represented the first large size proboscideans to appear in the fossil record and were characterized by a strongsexual dimorphism.[1][2]
References
[edit]- ^E. R. Seiffert, S. Nasir, A. Al-Harthy, J. R. Groenke, B. P. Kraatz, N. J. Stevens, and A. R. Al-Sayigh. 2012. Diversity in the later Paleogene proboscidean radiation: a small barytheriid from the Oligocene of Dhofar Governorate, Sultanate of Oman. Naturwissenschaften 99:133-141
- ^M. Al-Kindi, M. Pickford, Y. Al-Sinani, I. Al-Ismaili, A. Hartman and A. Heward. 2017. Large Mammals from the Rupelian of Oman – Recent Finds. Fossil Imprint 73(3-4):300-321
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