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Daouitherium
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<p><i>Daouitherium</i> ("Sidi Daoui beast" from the name of the site where it was discovered) is an extinct <a href="/facts/Genus/m8EFjSms">genus</a> of early <a href="/facts/Proboscidean/Dzk4qsH0">proboscideans</a> (a group including modern elephants and their extinct relatives) that lived during the early <a href="/facts/Eocene/EYgI8Uco">Eocene</a> (<a href="/facts/Ypresian/KdIvHqv5">Ypresian</a> stage) some 55 million years ago in <a href="/facts/North_Africa/ItxQAfs7">North Africa</a>. </p><p>Remains of this animal, fragments of jaws and teeth, have been found in the <a href="/facts/Ouled_Abdoun_Basin/GBMswvqW">Ouled Abdoun Basin</a> in <a href="/facts/Morocco/6ly8170M">Morocco</a>. It is estimated to have weighed between 80 and 170 kg (180 and 370 lb), making it one of the earliest large mammals known from Africa and one of the oldest known proboscideans. Another estimate gives a weight of 200 kg (440 lb). </p>