Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Chalicotheriidae

PaleoDB taxon number: 58318

Synonym: Eomoropus zhanggouensis Cheng and Ma 1990 (taxon 334385)

Full reference: O. Zdansky. 1930. Die alttertiären Säugetiere Chinas nebst stratigraphischen Bemerkungen (Mammalian fauna of the Lower Tertiary from China and some stratigraphic remarks). Palaeontologia Sinica, Series C 7(2):1-87

Belongs to Eomoropus according to O. Zdansky 1930

Sister taxa: Eomoropus amarorum, Eomoropus anarsius, Eomoropus major, Eomoropus minimus, Eomoropus pawnyunti, Eomoropus ulterior

Type specimens:

• Eomoropus quadridentatus: Its type locality is Lok7, Shang-Ho, Jen-Tsun, Mien-Chih-Hsien, Yuanqu basin, which is in an Eocene terrestrial marl in the Hedi Formation of China.
• Eomoropus zhanggouensis: GV86083, a tooth (Left M1). Its type locality is 500 m east of Zhanggou Village, which is in an Eocene terrestrial sandstone/mudstone in the Yuhuangding Formation of China.

Ecology: scansorial insectivore