| Barytheriidae | |
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| Barytherium molar | |
Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Proboscidea |
| Family: | †Barytheriidae C.W. Andrews, 1906 |
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Barytheriidae (meaning "heavy beasts") is an extinctfamily of primitiveproboscideans that lived during the lateEocene and earlyOligocene in North Africa and Oman. The Barytheriidae were the first large-sized proboscideans to appear in the fossil record and were characterized by a strongsexual dimorphism.[1][2]
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