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Anthracotheriidae is a
paraphyletic family of extinct, hippopotamus-like
artiodactyl ungulates related to
hippopotamuses and whales. The
oldest genus...
- extinct,
families of even-toed
ungulates were
Entelodontidae and
Anthracotheriidae.
Entelodonts existed from the
middle Eocene to the
early Miocene in...
- contended. The
traditional notion is that
there at
minimum two
families Anthracotheriidae and
Hippopotamidae and were
merely sister taxa.
However many detailed...
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Eocene finds of Amynodontidae, Hyracodontidae, Brontotheriidae, and
Anthracotheriidae have
affinities to Asian, but not
western European, forms. This Asian-related...
- Accordingly,
Spaulding grouped some
genera of the
extinct family Anthracotheriidae within Ruminantiamorpha (but not in Ruminantia), but
placed others...
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Anthracohyus was a
genus of
extinct artiodactyl ungulate mammal belonging to
Anthracotheriidae that
lived in Asia
during the
middle to late Eocene. Anthracohyus...
-
sister to Bothriodontinae. Li****au, F.; Ducrocq, S. (2007). "Family
Anthracotheriidae". In Prothero, D.R.; Foss, S.E. (eds.). The
Evolution of Artiodactyls...
- of Bothriodontinae,
Merycopotamus thachangensis (Cetartiodactyla,
Anthracotheriidae) from the Late
Miocene of
Nakhon Ratchasima,
Northeastern Thailand"...
- a
relationship between hippos and the
anatomically similar family Anthracotheriidae. Two
archaic whales (****cetus and Artiocetus)
formed the
sister group...
- soon
after the
start of the Miocene. The
genus typifies the
family Anthracotheriidae, if only
because it is the most
thoroughly studied. In many respects...
