Anthracotheriinae

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. They were small to large sized anthracotheres. Anthracotheriines are more primitive than the other two anthracotheriid subfamilies, Microbunodontinae and Bothriodontinae.

Anthracotheriinae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AnthracotheriidaePBDB
Diet
browserPBDB, for Anthracotheriidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Anthracotheriidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

Time the record covers

At least 21 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 139 occurrencesEocene — about 68 of 139 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 65 of 139 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 5 of 139 occurrencesMiocene57–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences51–49 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence46–45 Mya — about 1 occurrence45–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–42 Mya — about 1 occurrence42–40 Mya — about 13 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 19 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 13 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 8 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 8 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 10 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 9 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 8 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 7 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 10 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 11 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 11 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37.71 Mya15.98 Mya56.9 Mya10.7 Mya

139 occurrences of Anthracotheriinae on record, most of them in the Eocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

139 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

28 formations

Pondaung — 21.75°N, 94.67°EPondaung — 21.70°N, 94.76°EPondaung — 21.62°N, 94.85°EPondaung — 21.72°N, 94.68°EPondaung — 21.95°N, 94.57°EPondaung — 21.90°N, 94.57°EPondaung — 21.97°N, 94.47°EBrule — 40.80°N, 103.10°WBrule — 43.30°N, 102.50°WBrule — 43.85°N, 102.50°WBrule — 43.80°N, 103.10°WHeti — 35.09°N, 111.86°EHeti — 34.80°N, 111.91°EJebel Qatrani — 29.64°N, 30.58°EJebel Qatrani — 29.50°N, 30.50°EJebel Qatrani — 29.45°N, 30.58°EYongning — 22.82°N, 108.32°EChadron — 42.80°N, 103.40°WChadron — 43.60°N, 102.45°WChadron — 42.00°N, 104.20°WHedi — 34.80°N, 111.91°EManchar — 26.33°N, 67.83°EChitarwata — 28.85°N, 69.12°ECypress Hills — 50.00°N, 107.90°WCypress Hills — 49.57°N, 109.88°WGongkang — 23.83°N, 106.90°EGongkang — 24.12°N, 106.62°EBreitheid — 50.68°N, 8.20°EBreitheid — 50.53°N, 7.95°EClarno — 44.93°N, 120.42°W"Brian Head" — 37.80°N, 111.50°WYegua — 31.13°N, 95.45°WHeadon Hill — 50.72°N, 1.59°WLushi — 34.05°N, 111.03°EChinji — 32.82°N, 75.37°EBohlen — 51.19°N, 12.46°EYouganwo — 21.70°N, 110.88°EHuangzhuang — 35.60°N, 117.03°ENa Duong — 21.84°N, 106.08°EKrabi Basin B2 — 7.97°N, 99.06°ELizhuan — 32.46°N, 114.05°E

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The named rock units Anthracotheriinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 52 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Anthracotheriinae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Anthracotheriinae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

979 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 115 sites for Anthracotheriinae, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

56 references

Each of the 139 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 44 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Anthracotheriinae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Anthracotheriinae was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Leidy 1869