Protapirus

Protapirus
Temporal range: 33.9–20.6 Ma

Early Oligocene-Early Miocene

Skull
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Perissodactyla
Superfamily: Tapiroidea
Family: Tapiridae
Genus: Protapirus
Filhol (1877)
Species
  • Protapirus obliquidens (syn. Tanyops undans),
  • Protapirus simplex (syn. P. validus)
Restoration of P. validus
Protapirus robustus jaw

Protapirus is an extinct genus of tapir. Fossil specimens of this genus have been found in North America and Europe.[1]

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