Anthracotheriinae
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| Skull and jaws of Anthracotherium gastaldii | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Placentalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Superfamily: | Hippopotamoidea |
| Family: | †Anthracotheriidae |
| Subfamily: | †Anthracotheriinae Leidy, 1869 |
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Anthracotheriinae is an extinct subfamily of anthracotheriid artiodactyls that lived from Paleogene to early Neogene in North America and Eurasia. The group contained the genera Anthracotherium, Heptacodon, and Paenanthracotherium, as well as possibly Myaingtherium and Siamotherium.[1][3] They were small to large sized anthracotheres. Anthracotheriines are more primitive than the other two anthracotheriid subfamilies, Microbunodontinae and Bothriodontinae.[1][4][3]
References
- 1 2 3 Lihoreau, F.; Ducrocq, S. (2007). "Family Anthracotheriidae". In Prothero, D.R.; Foss, S.E. (eds.). The Evolution of Artiodactyls. The Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 89–105. ISBN 9780801887352.
- ↑ Scherler, Laureline; Lihoreau, Fabrice; Becker, Damien (February 2019). "To split or not to split Anthracotherium? A phylogeny of Anthracotheriinae (Cetartiodactyla: Hippopotamoidea) and its palaeobiogeographical implications". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 185 (2). Oxford University Press (published 2018-10-08): 487–510. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zly052. eISSN 1096-3642. ISSN 0024-4082. Retrieved 2026-07-11 – via ResearchGate.
- 1 2 3 4 Ducrocq, Stéphane (October 2020). "Taxonomic revision of Anthracokeryx thailandicus Ducrocq, 1999 (Anthracotheriidae, Microbunodontinae) from the Upper Eocene of Thailand". Vertebrata PalAsiatica. 58 (4): 293–304. doi:10.19615/j.cnki.1000-3118.200618. Retrieved 2026-07-11.
- ↑ Lihoreau, F.; Boisserie, J-R.; Manthi, F. K.; Ducrocq. S. (2015). "Hippos stem from the longest sequence of terrestrial cetartiodactyl evolution in Africa" (PDF). Nature Communications. 6: 6264. Bibcode:2015NatCo...6.6264L. doi:10.1038/ncomms7264. PMID 25710445. S2CID 35257041.