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is likely to be more closely related to other African and European genera, so the feature may have evolved independently in two lineages. This would suggest it reflects a common behavior in schizotheriine chalicotheres, such as using the head as a battering ram in territorial or dominance contests,
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had the highest-crowned teeth of any chalicothere, suggesting a diet of more abrasive plants. While this has been reconstructed as leaves, twigs, and tree bark, one skull discovered in China was from a dry steppe zone with few trees; the genus may have been less dependent on browsing leaves than
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D. Geraads, E. Tsoukala, and N. Spassov. 2007. A skull of Ancylotherium (Chalicotheriidae, Mammalia) from the late Miocene of Thermopigi (Serres, N. Greece) and the relationships of the genus. Journal of Vertebrate
884: 976:"Ancylotherium pentelicum (Gaudry & Lartet, 1856) (Perissodactyla, Mammalia) from the classic locality of Pikermi (Attica, Greece), stored in the Palaeontological and Geological Museum of Athens" 387:, like many other chalicotheres. While it had the typical long forelimbs and short hind limbs of a chalicothere, like other schizotheriines, it did not walk on its knuckles. It was similar to the 1590: 928:"New material of Chalicotheriidae (Perissodactyla, Mammalia) from the Late Miocene of Axios Valley, Macedonia (Greece) with the description of a new species" 724:
Kampouridis, Panagiotis; Roussiakis, Socrates J.; Giaourtsakis, Ioannis X.; Kargopoulos, Nikolaos; Svorligkou, Georgia; Theodorou, Georgios E. (2022-03-01).
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was named by Gaudry (1863) and was assigned to Chalicotheriidae by Carroll (1988); and to Schizotheriinae by Geraads et al. (2007).
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the frontal bone of the skull is inflated to form a dome, similar to but less marked than in the "dome-headed" chalicothere
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With some individuals reaching 2 metres (6.6 ft) high at the shoulder and a weight of 450 kilograms (990 lb),
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Handa, Naoto; Nakatsukasa, Masato; Kunimatsu, Yutaka; Tsubamoto, Takehisa; Nakaya, Hideo (2 December 2021).
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R. L. Carroll. 1988. Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution. W. H. Freeman and Company, New York 1-698
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Spassov, Nikolay; Geraads, Denis; Hristova, Latinka; Markov, Georgi N. (22 March 2019).
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Chen, Shao-kun; Deng, Tao; Pang, Li-bo; He, Wen; Chen, Shan-qin (2012-11-01).
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In Africa, the range of the genus spans from the Late Miocene to the
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Geraads, Denis; Tsoukala, Evangelia; Spassov, Nikolaï (2007-06-12).
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Saraç, Gerçek; Kaya, Tanju; Geraads, Denis (March–April 2002).
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Eukaryota
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Mammalia
Perissodactyla
Chalicotheriidae
Schizotheriinae
Ancylotherium
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