phosphatherium

Phosphatherium for instance was only 60 cm long and weighted approximately 15 kg.

The earliest proboscids, the African Eritherium and Phosphatherium of the late Paleocene, heralded the first radiation.

Phosphatherium is an extinct genus of primitive proboscidean that lived during the Paleocene to early Eocene some 56 million years ago of North Africa.

Eritherium is the sister clade to Phosphatherium, Numidotherium and Moeritherium, and together with Daouitherium are one of the most complete evolutionary sequences of early mammalian radiations following the K/T extinction.