Palaeotheriidae
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| Palaeotheres Fossil range: Early Eocene to early Oligocene |
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Palaeotheres are an extinct group of herbivorous mammals related to tapirs and rhinoceros and probably ancestral to horses. They ranged across the Northern Hemisphere 60 to 45 million years ago. Their size ranged from 20 to 75 cm at the shoulder. They ate soft leaves, plant shoot, berries, and leaf matter picked up from the forest floor. They lived in dense forests.
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