Prolibytherium Temporal range: Burdigalian
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Prolibytherium magnieri restoration, with female (left) and male (right) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | †Prolibytheriidae |
Genus: | †Prolibytherium Arambourg, 1961 |
Type species | |
†Prolibytherium magnieri | |
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Prolibytherium is an extinct genus of prolibytheriid artiodactyl ungulate native to Middle Miocene North Africa and Pakistan, from around 16.9 to 15.97 million years ago. Fossils of Prolibytherium were found in the Marada Formation of Libya, Vihowa Formation of Pakistan, and the Moghara Formation of Egypt.[1]