Helaletes

Helaletes
Temporal range:
H. nanus skeleton
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Perissodactyla
Family: †Helaletidae
Genus: †Helaletes
Marsh, 1872
Species:
†H. nanus
Binomial name
†Helaletes nanus
Marsh, 1871

Helaletes is a genus of an extinct perissodactyls closely related to tapirs. Fossils have been found in North America.

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