Arsinoitherium

Arsinoitherium is an extinct genus of paenungulate mammal belonging to the extinct order Embrithopoda. It is related to elephants, sirenians, hyraxes and the extinct desmostylians. Arsinoitheres were superficially rhinoceros-like herbivoresthat lived during the late Eocene and the early Oligocene of northern Africa from 36 to 30 million years ago, in areas of tropical rainforest and at the margin of mangrove swamps. A species described in 2004, A. giganteum, lived in Ethiopia about 27 million years ago.
Category:Animals
Category:Creatures
Category:Embrithopods
Category:Priabonian genus first appearances
Category:Rupelian genus extinctions
Category:Eocene mammals of Africa
Category:Oligocene mammals of Africa
Category:Prehistoric mammal genera
Category:Fossil taxa described in 1902