Platybelodon danovi, tooth Compsognathus Living among the variety of

Living among the variety of ancestral forms that make up the Burgess Shale Fauna is this earliest known representative of the phylum to which we ourselves belong

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Platybelodon danovi, tooth Compsognathus Living among the variety ofPlatybelodon ("flat spear tusk") was a genus of large herbivorous mammal related to the elephant (order Proboscidea). It lived during the Miocene Epoch, about 15 4 million years ago, and ranged over Africa, Europe, Asia and North America. Although it thrived during its time, it did not survive past the Miocene Platybelodon was very similar to Amebelodon, another, closely related gomphothere genus. Due to the shape of the two lower teeth, which are