Product Description
This Moropus, 2" figure includes hand painted features to give it realistic details that are true to natural anatomy. This figure is considered a high quality replica. Highest Quality Natural Rubber.
Moropus (meaning "slow foot") is an extinct genus of large perissodactyl ("odd-toed" ungulate) mammal in the chalicothere family. They were endemic to North America during the Miocene from ~20.4–13.6 Mya, existing for approximately 6.8 million years. Moropus belonged to the schizotheriine subfamily of chalicotheres, and has the best fossil record of any member of this group; numbers of individuals, including complete skeletons, have been found. The closest extant relatives of Moropus are other perissodactyls: horses, rhinos, and tapirs. Moropus, extinct genus of the chalicotheres, a group of very unusual perissodactyls (“odd-toed” ungulates) related to the horse. Fossil remains of Moropus are found in Miocene deposits in North America and Asia (the Miocene Epoch lasted from 23.7 to 5.3 million years ago). Moropus was as large as a modern horse, but, unlike other perissodactyls, it had claws instead of hoofs. The forelimbs were longer than the hind limbs, and the back sloped downward to the hindquarters. The teeth possessed low crowns; the molars were large and the premolars small. It is likely that Moropus did not browse or graze as did other horse like forms but instead probably used its large claws to dig up roots and tubers more suited to its type of dentition than grasses.
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