Pseudamphimeryx
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Pseudamphimeryx is an extinct genus of Palaeogene artiodactyls belonging to the Amphimerycidae that was endemic to the central region of western Europe and lived from the Middle to Late Eocene. It was
Because of some similar anatomical traits of the amphimerycids to those of ruminants (like the Java mouse-deer (Tragulus javanicus), pictured), they were previously considered ruminants by biologists. Today, their evolutionary relationship to ruminants and other artiodactyls proves unclear.
P. renevieri lower dentition, 1910
Palaeogeography of Europe and Asia during the Middle Eocene with possible artiodactyl and perissodactyl dispersal routes.
Anoplotheriidae
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Anoplotheriidae is an extinct family of artiodactyls exclusive to the Palaeogene that was endemic to western Europe and lived from the Middle Eocene to the Early Oligocene. The Anoplotheriidae is divi
Mandible with dentition of Diplobune secundaria
Restoration of Palaeotherium, which coexisted with anoplotheriids in the Middle Eocene to Early Oligocene