Hukoutherium

Hukoutherium
Temporal range: Paleocene-Eocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Eutheria
Superorder: Laurasiatheria
Order: Mesonychia
Family: Mesonychidae
Genus: Hukoutherium
Chow
Species
  • H. ambigum
  • H. shimemensis

Hukoutherium is an extinct genus of mesonychid lived during the middle Paleocene in Asia and was named by Chow. The genus became extinct during the Eocene

Hukoutherium is known from a mandible with incisors, canines, and broken dentaries, a crushed crania and fragmentary bones.

Species

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