Eurotherium

Eurotherium ("european beast") is an extinct paraphyletic genus of placental mammals from the extinct family Hyaenodontidae that lived from the Early to Middle Eocene in Europe.^[1][6][7]

Eurotherium Temporal range: 50.8–41.2 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Early to Middle Eocene
skull and mandible of Eurotherium theriodis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	†Hyaenodonta
Superfamily:	†Hyaenodontoidea
Family:	†Hyaenodontidae
Genus:	†Eurotherium Polly and Lange-Badré, 1993[1]
Type species
†Eurotherium theriodis Van Valen, 1965
Species
†E. mapplethorpei (Solé, 2021)[2] †E. matthesi (Lange-Badré & Haubold, 1990)[3] †E. theriodis (Van Valen, 1965)[4]
Synonyms
synonyms of species: E. matthesi: Allopterodon matthesi (Lange-Badré & Haubold, 1990) Prodissopsalis voigti (Matthes, 1967)[5] E. theriodis: Allopterodon theriodis (Lange-Badré & Haubold, 1990) Prodissopsalis theriodis (Van Valen, 1965)

Palaeoecology

Based on the size of its turbinates, E. theriodis is believed to have been a scavenger.^[8]