-
digging up the
roots of
aquatic plants. Some
skeletal characters of
anthracotheres suggest they are
related to hippos. The
nature of the
sediments in which...
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groups such as anoplotheres, cainotheriids, merycoidodonts, entelodonts,
anthracotheres, basilosaurids, and palaeomerycids. Many
artiodactyls are of
great dietary...
-
given in the
table below: The
hippopotamids are
descended from the
anthracotheres, a
family of
semiaquatic and
terrestrial artiodactyls that appeared...
- to the hippopotamus, of
which it is
probably an
ancestral form. The
Anthracotheres,
together with the hippos, are
grouped with the
cetaceans in the clade...
-
Hippopotaminae is used. Further, some
taxonomists group hippopotami and
anthracotheres in the
superfamily Anthracotheroidea or Hippopotamoidea. The taxonomy...
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detailed research of the
dentition among ancodonts, as well as how some
anthracotheres were
similar to
hippos in appearance, lead the
current consensus where...
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members of the
family Hippopotamidae. Some
taxonomists place hippos and
anthracotheres in the
superfamily Anthracotheroidea.
Hippopotamidae are classified...
-
ancestor between the two
branched off into
cetacea and
anthracotheres;
nearly all
anthracotheres became extinct at the end of the
Pleistocene 2.5 mya,...
- into the
completely aquatic cetaceans. The
other branch became the
anthracotheres, a
large family of four-legged beasts, the
earliest of whom in the late...
-
common ancestor between the two
branched off into
cetacea and
anthracotheres;
anthracotheres became extinct at the end of the
Pleistocene two-and-a-half...
