Hukoutherium

Hukoutherium is an extinct genus of mesonychid which lived during the middle Paleocene in Asia and was named by Chow. The genus became extinct during the Eocene

Hukoutherium
Temporal range: Paleocene-Eocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Order:
Mesonychia
Family:
Mesonychidae
Genus:
Hukoutherium

Chow
Species
  • H. ambigum
  • H. shimemensis

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


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