Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Anthracotheriidae
Full reference: W. B. Scott. 1940. The mammalian fauna of the White River Oligocene; Part 4, Artiodactyla; Part 5, Perissodactyla. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 28(4):363-746
Parent taxon: Anthracotheriidae according to L. Scherler et al. 2019
See also Böhme et al. 2013, Boisserie et al. 2005, Boisserie et al. 2010 and Scott 1940
Sister taxa: Aepinacodon, Afromeryx, Ancodon, Anthracochoerus, Anthracosenex, Anthracotheriinae, Arretotherium, Atopotherium, Bugtitherium, Bunobrachyodus, Choeromeryx, Elliottherium, Elotherium, Gonotelma, Hemimeryx, Heothema, Huananothema, Kukusepasutanka, Masritherium, Merycops, Microbunodontinae, Pachychoerops, Parabrachyodus, Probrachyodus, Qatraniodon, Sivameryx, Telmatodon, Ulausuodon
Subtaxa: Bakalovia Bothriodon Bothriogenys Brachyodus Elomeryx Libycosaurus Merycopotamus Octacodon
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution:
• Miocene of Austria (3 collections), Chad (2), Egypt (2), France (10), Germany (1), Greece (2), India (2), Kazakhstan (1), Kenya (2), Libya (1), Namibia (2), Pakistan (4), Portugal (5), Switzerland (3), Thailand (2), Tunisia (3), Uganda (3)
• Arikareean of United States (2: Nebraska, South Dakota)
• Oligocene of Canada (5: Saskatchewan), China (1), the Czech Republic (2), Egypt (8), France (4), Georgia (2), Greece (1), Japan (3), Kenya (1), Libya (2), Oman (1), Pakistan (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Switzerland (1), United States (8: California, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota)
• Eocene to Oligocene of United States (1: Florida)
• Eocene of Bulgaria (1), Canada (2: Saskatchewan), China (2), Egypt (1), France (1), Japan (2), Mongolia (3), Namibia (1), Thailand (2), Vietnam (2)
Total: 109 collections including 119 occurrences