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Anancus
Taxonomy
Anancus was named by Aymard (1855). It is not extant. It is the type genus of Anancinae.
It was assigned to Elephantiformes by Shoshani and Tassy (1996); to Elephantidae by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Gomphotheriidae by Carroll (1988), Lambert and Shoshani (1998); to Elephantoidea by Kalb and Frohelich (1995), Shoshani and Tassy (2005); and to Anancinae by Sanders (2007), Hautier et al. (2009), Cregut-Bonnoure and Tsoukala (2017).
It was assigned to Elephantiformes by Shoshani and Tassy (1996); to Elephantidae by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Gomphotheriidae by Carroll (1988), Lambert and Shoshani (1998); to Elephantoidea by Kalb and Frohelich (1995), Shoshani and Tassy (2005); and to Anancinae by Sanders (2007), Hautier et al. (2009), Cregut-Bonnoure and Tsoukala (2017).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1855 | Anancus Aymard |
| 1988 | Anancus Carroll |
| 1995 | Anancus Kalb and Frohelich p. 728 |
| 1996 | Anancus Shoshani and Tassy p. 352 |
| 1997 | Anancus McKenna and Bell p. 503 |
| 1998 | Anancus Lambert and Shoshani p. 613 |
| 2005 | Anancus Shoshani and Tassy p. 9 figs. Table 2 |
| 2007 | Anancus Sanders p. 2 |
| 2009 | Anancus Hautier et al. p. 172 |
| 2017 | Anancus Cregut-Bonnoure and Tsoukala |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. †Anancus Aymard 1855
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†Anancus alexeevae Baigusheva 1971
†Anancus arvernensis Croizet and Jobert 1828
†Anancus bensonensis Gidley 1926
†Anancus brazosius Hay 1923
†Anancus capensis Sanders 2007
†Anancus defloccatus Hay 1926
†Anancus kazachstanensis Auberkerova 1974
†Anancus kazachstanicus Aubekerova 1974
†Anancus lehmanni Gaziry 1997
†Anancus orarius Hay 1926
†Anancus perimensis Falconer and Cautley 1847
†Anancus petrocchii Coppens 1965
†Anancus sinensis Hopwood 1935
†Anancus sivalensis Cautley 1836
†Anancus ultimus Sanders 2011
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Ji et al. 2002, Lillegraven 1979, Carroll 1988, Lambert and Shoshani 1998, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: base of the Messinian to the top of the Middle Pleistocene or 7.24600 to 0.12900 Ma
Collections (167 total)
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| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Miocene - Pliocene | Uganda | A. kenyensis (22463) | |
| Miocene - Pliocene | South Africa | A. sp. (22228 22229) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | India (Gujarat) | A. perimensis (87489) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | Greece (Attiki) | A. sp. (195562) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | Italy (Faenza) | A. arvernensis (215240) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | South Africa (Namaqualand) | A. kenyensis (51189) | |
| Tortonian - Messinian | Kenya | A. kenyensis (22241) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene - Early/Lower Pliocene | Uganda | A. kenyensis (22424) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene - Early/Lower Pliocene | Chad | A. kenyensis (24181) | |
| Tortonian - Zanclean | Ethiopia | Anancus indet., A. kenyensis (22139) A. kenyensis (22158 22159 22162 22163 22165 22179) | |
Youngest occurrences |
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| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | PBDB collection number |
| Pleistocene | Italy | A. arvernensis (96728) | |
| Quaternary | Slovakia | A. sp. (34583) | |
| MN 17 | France (Haute-Loire) | A. arvernensis (47133) | |
| MN 17 | France (Auvergne) | A. arvernensis (47131 47188) Mastodon arvernensis (47624) | |
| MN 17 | France (Auvergne Region) | A. arvernensis (32105) | |
| MN 17 | France (Rhone-Alpes) | A. arvernensis (47150) | |
| MN 17 | France | A. arvernensis (47129) | |
| MN 17 | Italy (Lazio) | A. arvernensis (49414) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Spain (La Rioja) | A. arvernensis (189976) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | United Kingdom (England) | A. arvernensis (49989) | |