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Hukoutherium

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Mammalia

Superorder
  
Laurasiatheria

Phylum
  
Chordata

Infraclass
  
Eutheria

Order
  
Mesonychia

Similar
  
Yantanglestes, Mongolestes, Mongolonyx, Harpagolestes, Hapalodectes

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

  • Genus Hukoutherium
  • Hukoutherium ambigum
  • Hukoutherium shimemensis
  • References

    Hukoutherium Wikipedia