| Indolophus Temporal range: Early Eocene
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| Family: | Indolophidae
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| Genus: | Indolophus
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| Species: | I. guptai
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| Indolophus guptai Pilgrim, 1925
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Indolophus is an extinct genus of perissodactyl belonging to the clade Tapiromorpha, which includes modern-day tapirs. Fossils have been found in Eocene deposits of Myanmar.1
Description
Indolophus can be distinguished from other tapiromorphs in the characteristics of the upper dentition; it is distinguished from other basal tapiromorphs in having a more developed molar and protolophid and hypolophid. Indolophus is more primitive than tapiroids due to the lophodont dentiton and the absence of lingual and buccal cingula and molar metaconule.2 I. guptai has been estimated to have had a body mass of approximately 20.7 kg.3
References
References
- G. E. Pilgrim. 1925. The Perissodactyla of the Eocene of Burma. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India 8(3):1-28.
- Tsubamoto, Takehisa; Tun, Soe Thura; Egi, Naoko; Takai, Masanaru; Shigehara, Nobuo; Soe, Aung Naing; Aung, Aye Ko; Thein, Tin (30 September 2003). "Reevaluation of some ungulate mammals from the Eocene Pondaung Formation, Myanmar". Paleontological Research. 7 (3): 219–243. doi:10.2517/prpsj.7.219. ISSN 1342-8144. Retrieved 21 September 2025 – via BioOne Digital Library.
- Tsubamoto, Takehisa; Egi, Naoko; Takai, Masanaru; Sein, Chit; Maung, Maung (2005). "Middle Eocene ungulate mammals from Myanmar: A review with description of new specimens" (PDF). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 50 (1): 117–138 – via Acta Palaeontologica Polonica.