Anisodon grande is an extinct species of the subfamily Chalicotheriinae of the chalicotherium family. The only species of the genus Anisodon . He lived in Europe at the end of the Miocene . The height at the withers is about 150 cm and the weight is about 600 kg. These animals had clawed forelimbs, with which they could bend tree branches and eat leaves, as well as scare away Miocene predators, such as amphicids and saber-toothed cats .
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Literature
- Classification of Mammals by Malcolm C. McKenna and Susan K. Bell (page 149)
- Catalog of the Fossil Mammalia in the British Museum, (Natural History): Part 3. Containing the Order Ungulata, Suborders Perissodactyla, Toxodontia, Condylarthra, and Amblypoda by Richard Lydekker (page 162)