Talk:Chalicotherium

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Great to see a prehistoric mammal worked on. The issue with the two daughter genera needs addressing. What does it mean? Are the two names older? These daughter genera should be sunk into Chalicotherium (?)cheers, Cas Liber | talk | contribs 20:59, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Well, it seems current phylogenetic analyses find Anisodon and Nestoritherium nested within Chalicotherium. Following suit on the term "daughter clade" I called them "daughter genera". I'll try to find some more about it. I've put the citation for the daughter genera and explained a bit more if that's good enough for now. Dracontes 09:02, 6 June 2007 (UTC)