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Anthracotherium, from
Ancient Gr**** ἄνθραξ (ánthrax),
meaning "coal", and θηρίον (theríon),
meaning "beast", is an
extinct genus of
artiodactyls characterized...
- 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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species of the
genus is
Paenanthracotherium bergeri. The
species "
Anthracotherium"
hippoideum and "Brachyodus"
strategus have been re****igned to this...
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American and
Eurasian artiodactyls. The
group contained the
genera Anthracotherium, Heptacodon, and Paenanthracotherium, as well as
possibly Myaingtherium...
- 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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whilst the jaw
structure of
fossils of
select species,
particularly Anthracotherium, seem to
indicate that it was an
ancestral form of
modern hippopotamuses...
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Anthracotheres like
Anthracotherium resembled pygmy hippos and are
among their likely ancestors....
- and
Tsubamoto et al. (2002)
considered Anthracothema a
synonym of
Anthracotherium. However, Li****au et al. (2004) and
Scherler et al. (2018) rejected...
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Fabrice Li****au;
Damien Becker (2018). "To
split or not to
split Anthracotherium? A
phylogeny of
Anthracotheriinae (Cetartiodactyla: Hippopotamoidea)...
