Mammal
Chalicotherium
It ate plants and had long claws on its front feet.
Chalicotherium combined a plant diet with long arms ending in claws.
Three stages. One companion.
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AI-generated, stylized game illustrations. These designs and growth stages are imaginative, not scientific reconstructions.
Chalicotherium at a glance
- Diet
- Herbivore
- A plant-based diet is inferred from its anatomy and comparisons with related animals; not all herbivores ate the same plants.
- When it lived
- Neogene
- Group
- Chalicotheriidae
- Chalicotheriids
- Fossil locations
- Germany
- Places where fossils have been found
Beyond the game
The real Chalicotherium
It was a herbivore with long arms equipped with claws and shorter, more robust hind legs. This anatomical combination distinguished it from most current herbivorous mammals.
It combined a plant-based diet with long claws on its front limbs. Few living herbivores look quite like it. Claws do not automatically make an animal a hunter when the rest of its anatomy points toward other foods.
This grouping describes evolutionary relationships. Its members share ancestors; they do not form a chain in which one must turn into another.
Fossil discoveries
Selected fossil records · present-day map
Map references
Map: Natural Earth, public domain. Fossil records: linked collections and publications.Sources & text credits
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