A new early Eocene deperetellid tapiroid illuminates the origin of Deperetellidae and the pattern of premolar molarization in Perissodactyla

• Bin Bai ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: baibin@ivpp.ac.cn (BB); jmeng@amnh.org (JM); wangyuanqing@ivpp.ac.cn (YQW)

  Affiliations Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, CAS Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenviroment, Beijing, China, State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4394-8689

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• Jin Meng ,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: baibin@ivpp.ac.cn (BB); jmeng@amnh.org (JM); wangyuanqing@ivpp.ac.cn (YQW)

  Affiliations Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Division of Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, United States of America, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, United States of America

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• Fang-Yuan Mao,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, CAS Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenviroment, Beijing, China, Division of Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, United States of America

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• Zhao-Qun Zhang,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliations Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, CAS Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenviroment, Beijing, China, College of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Yuan-Qing Wang

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: baibin@ivpp.ac.cn (BB); jmeng@amnh.org (JM); wangyuanqing@ivpp.ac.cn (YQW)

  Affiliations Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, CAS Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenviroment, Beijing, China, College of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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