Hukoutherium
Encyclopedia
Hukoutherium lived during the middle Pliocene
in Asia
and was named by Chow. It is believed by some paleontologist that Hukoutherium could be the ancestors of whales, but due to a lack of fossil evidence this remains controversy.
Hukoutherium is known from a mandible with incisors, canines, and broken dentaries, a crushed crania and fragmentary bones.
Pliocene
The Pliocene Epoch is the period in the geologic timescale that extends from 5.332 million to 2.588 million years before present. It is the second and youngest epoch of the Neogene Period in the Cenozoic Era. The Pliocene follows the Miocene Epoch and is followed by the Pleistocene Epoch...
in Asia
Asia
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...
and was named by Chow. It is believed by some paleontologist that Hukoutherium could be the ancestors of whales, but due to a lack of fossil evidence this remains controversy.
Hukoutherium is known from a mandible with incisors, canines, and broken dentaries, a crushed crania and fragmentary bones.
Species
- Genus Hukoutherium
- Hukoutherium ambigum
- Hukoutherium shimemensis