| Hukoutherium Temporal range: Middle pliocene |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Eutheria |
| Superorder: | Laurasiatheria |
| Order: | Mesonychia |
| Family: | Mesonychidae |
| Genus: | Hukoutherium Chow |
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Hukoutherium lived during the middle Pliocene in Asia and was named by Chow. It is believed by some paleontologist that Hukoutherium could be the ancestors of whales, but due to a lack of fossil evidence this remains controversy.
Hukoutherium is known from a mandible with incisors, canines, and broken dentaries, a crushed crania and fragmentary bones.