Daouitherium Gheerbrant and Sudre, 2002

Gheerbrant, Emmanuel, Sudre, Jean, Cappetta, Henri, Iarochène, Mohamed, Amaghzaz, Mbarek & Bouya, Baâdi, 2002, A new large mammal from the Ypresian of Morocco: Evidence of surprising diversity of early proboscideans, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 47 (3), pp. 493-506 : 494

Genus Daouitherium Gheerbrant and Sudre , gen. nov.

Etymology: From Sidi Daoui, the quarrying area where most of the Ouled Abdoun mammal remains have been discovered, and therion, wild animal in Greek.

Type species: Daouitherium rebouli gen. et sp. nov., the only known species.

Diagnosis and distribution.—Thesameasofthetypespecies.