Barytherium
| Barytherium Temporal range: | |
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| molar tooth of B. grave at Senckenberg Museum of Frankfurt | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Proboscidea |
| Family: | †Barytheriidae |
| Genus: | †Barytherium C.W. Andrews, 1901 |
| Type species | |
| †Barytherium grave C.W. Andrews, 1901 | |
| Species | |
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Barytherium (meaning "heavy beast") is a genus of an extinct family (Barytheriidae) of primitive proboscideans that lived during the late Eocene and early Oligocene in North Africa. The type species is Barytherium grave, found at the beginning of the 20th century in Fayum, Egypt. Since then, more complete specimens have been found at Dor el Talha, Libya. More fossils were also discovered in 2011 in the Aidum area in Dhofar by Oman's Ministry of Heritage and Culture, which was named Barytherium omansi.
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