Eurotherium
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| Eurotherium Temporal range: Early to Middle Eocene | |
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| skull and mandible of Eurotherium theriodis | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | †Hyaenodonta |
| Superfamily: | †Hyaenodontoidea |
| Family: | †Hyaenodontidae |
| Genus: | †Eurotherium Polly and Lange-Badré, 1993[1] |
| Type species | |
| †Eurotherium theriodis Van Valen, 1965 | |
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Eurotherium ("european beast") is an extinct paraphyletic genus of placental mammals from the extinct family Hyaenodontidae that lived from the Early to Middle Eocene in Europe.[1][6][7]