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Anthracotherium (from Gr****: ἄνθραξ anthrax, 'coal' and Gr****: θηρίον
therium 'beast') is an
extinct genus of
artiodactyls characterized by
having 44...
- same reasons. The
family is
named after the
first genus discovered,
Anthracotherium,
which means "coal beast", as the
first fossils of it were
found in...
- the
hippo can thus be
traced from
Eocene and
Oligocene species: from
Anthracotherium and
Elomeryx to the
Miocene species Merycopotamus and Libycosaurus...
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Tsubamoto et al. (2002)
considered Anthracothema a
synonym of
Anthracotherium. However, Li****au et al. (2004) and
Scherler et al. (2018) rejected...
- C. (1926). "Hyænodon aimi, sp. n., and a note on the
occurrence of
Anthracotherium minus from the
Headon Beds at Hordle."
Annals and
Magazine of Natural...
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synonymy Anthracotherium (in part)
Octacodon Marsh, 1894b H.
curtus synonymy Anthracotherium curtum (Marsh, 1894a)
sensu Matthew, 1899
Anthracotherium karense...
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Anthracotheres like
Anthracotherium resembled pygmy hippos and are
among their likely ancestors....
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giant rhinocerotoid Paraceratherium bugtiense and the
anthracothere Anthracotherium bugtiense. The
fauna of this
locality also
includes the bovid−like...
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species of the
genus is
Paenanthracotherium bergeri. The
species "
Anthracotherium"
hippoideum and "Brachyodus"
strategus have been re****igned to this...
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whilst the jaw
structure of
fossils of
select species,
particularly Anthracotherium, seem to
indicate that it was an
ancestral form of
modern hippopotamuses...
