Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Chalicotheriidae
Parent taxon: Chalicotherioidea according to J. J. Hooker and D. Dashzeveg 2004
See also Carroll 1988, Colbert 1935, Cope 1881, Cope 1889, Cope 1889, Flower and Lydekker 1891, Geraads et al. 2007, Hay 1902, Holbrook 1999, Hough 1955, Lambe 1908, Prothero and Schoch 1989 and Scott 1913
Sister taxa: Eomoropidae, Grangeria, Lophiodontidae
Subtaxa: Chalicotheriinae Eomoropus Limognitherium Macrotheriinae Moropodinae Moropus Pernatherium Schizotheriinae Schizotherium
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution:
• Quaternary of China (3 collections), Ethiopia (8)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of China (1), India (1)
• Pliocene of China (1), Kenya (1), Malawi (1), Myanmar (1), South Africa (1), Tanzania (5)
• Hemphillian of United States (1: Nevada)
• Miocene of Afghanistan (1), Austria (3), Bulgaria (5), China (13), France (11), Georgia (2), Germany (5), Greece (16), Hungary (1), India (1), Kenya (8), Pakistan (7), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (1), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Slovakia (1), Spain (2), Tajikistan (2), Turkey (3), Uganda (1), United States (49: California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)
• Harrisonian of United States (14: Nebraska, Oregon, Wyoming)
• Arikareean of Panama (1), United States (2: Oregon, Wyoming)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Kazakhstan (1), Pakistan (1)
• Oligocene of Angola (1), China (8), France (3), Georgia (1), Kazakhstan (2), United States (1: Florida)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Mexico (1)
• Eocene of Canada (1: Saskatchewan), China (11), Mongolia (3), Thailand (1), United States (5: Utah, Wyoming)
Total: 215 collections including 225 occurrences