#palaeotheres

[palaeomedia-reviews]

Is there anything wrong with the Palaeotherium from Crystal Palace?

This Palaeotherium, like many early reconstructions, show it as a tapir-like animal. Real palaeotheres were indeed perissodactyls, but more closely related to horses and their ancestors than to tapirs. So the actual animal would've probably lacked the proboscis. The tail could be longer and the body less hunched. Imagine Hyracotherium. That's what Palaeotherium probably resembled closely.