Biology:Helaletidae
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Short description: Extinct family of odd-toed ungulates
| Helaletidae Temporal range: Early Eocene - Miocene
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| Skeleton of Helaletes nanus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Perissodactyla |
| Superfamily: | Tapiroidea |
| Family: | †Helaletidae Osborn, 1892 |
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The Helaletidae are an extinct family of tapiroid closely related and likely ancestral to the true tapirs, which contain Protapirus and all descendants.[1] In alternative classifications, Helaletidae is treated as a subfamily within the Tapiridae, the Helaletinae.
Members of the family are defined by having less bilophodont cheek teeth compared to other tapiroids.[2]
References
- ↑ Ruiz-García, M. (2012). Phylogeography of the mountain tapir (Tapirus pinchaque) and the Central American tapir (Tapirus bairdii) and the molecular origins of the three South-American tapirs. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/230585050.
- ↑ Lucas, Spencer G. (2002). Chinese Fossil Vertebrates. Columbia University Press. p. 217. ISBN 9780231504614.
Wikidata ☰ Q5486971 entry
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