Kronokotherium brevimaxillare Pronina 1957 (desmostylian)

Mammalia - Perissodactyla

Alternative combination: Kronotherium brevimaxillare

Full reference: I. G. Pronina. 1957. A new representative of Desmostylides Kronokotherium brevimaxillare gen. nov. sp. nov. from Miocene deposits at the Kamchatka Peninsula. Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, NS 117:310-312

Belongs to Kronokotherium according to D. P. Domning 2008

See also Domning 1996, Pronina 1957 and Shikama 1966

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Its type locality is Raktinskaya, which is in a Miocene marine horizon in the Russian Federation

Ecology: amphibious herbivore

Distribution: found only at Raktinskaya

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