Kingdom Animalia Class Mammalia Superfamily Tapiroidea Rank Genus | Phylum Chordata Order Perissodactyla Family Deperetellidae | |
Similar Homogalax, Heptodon, Ceratomorpha, Tapiridae | ||
Deperetella is an extinct genus of herbivorous mammals that flourished in the Eocene and were related to tapirs. The genus was defined in 1925 by W. D. Matthew and Walter W. Granger, who named it after French paleontologist Charles Depéret.
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