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Barytheriidae (barythere)

Osteichthyes - Proboscidea - Barytheriidae

Taxonomy

Barytheriidae is a family. It is not extant.

It was assigned to Ungulata by Andrews (1906); to Proboscidea by Abel (1919); to Proboscidea by Shoshani and Tassy (1996); to Proboscidea by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Barytherioidea by Simpson (1945), Carroll (1988), Sanders et al. (2010); and to Plesielephantiformes by Shoshani and Tassy (2005), Larramendi and Ferretti (2026).

Subtaxa

Barytherium, Omanitherium

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1906	Barytheriidae Andrews p. 172
1919	Barytheriidae Abel p. 829
1945	Barytheriidae Simpson
1988	Barytheriidae Carroll
1996	Barytheriidae Shoshani and Tassy p. 352
1997	Barytheriidae McKenna and Bell p. 498
2005	Barytheriidae Shoshani and Tassy p. 9 figs. Table 2
2010	Barytheriidae Sanders et al. p. 171
2026	Barytheriidae Larramendi and Ferretti p. 15

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
class	Osteichthyes
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
subclass	Synapsida
—	Therapsida	()

Rank	Name	Author
infraorder	Cynodontia	()
—	Mammaliamorpha
—	Mammaliaformes
class	Mammalia
—	Cladotheria
—	Zatheria
subclass	Tribosphenida	()
subclass	Theria
—	Eutheria	()
—	Placentalia
superorder	Afrotheria
—	Paenungulatomorpha
superorder	Paenungulata
—	Tethytheria
order	Proboscidea	()
—	Plesielephantiformes	Shoshani 2001
family	Barytheriidae
family	Barytheriidae

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.

Fm. †Barytheriidae [barythere]

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G. †Barytherium Andrews 1901

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†Barytherium grave Andrews 1901

G. †Omanitherium Seiffert et al. 2012

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†Omanitherium dhofarensis Seiffert et al. 2012

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

phosphaticsubp

Environment:

terrestrialsubc

Locomotion:

actively mobilec

Life habit:

ground dwellingf

Diet:

grazerf

Diet 2:

browserf

Reproduction:

viviparoussubc

Created:

2005-08-26 13:32:09

Modified:

2005-08-26 15:32:09

Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum

References: Nowak 1999, Carroll 1988, Ji et al. 2002, Lillegraven 1979, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: base of the Bartonian to the top of the Early/Lower Oligocene or 41.03000 to 27.30000 Ma

Collections (11 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Bartonian	41.03 - 37.71	Libya	Barytherium sp. (49942)
Bartonian	41.03 - 37.71	Western Sahara	Proboscidea indet. (175734)
Bartonian - Late/Upper Eocene	41.03 - 33.9	Libya	Barytherium grave (48077) Barytherium sp. (55449)
Priabonian	37.71 - 33.9	Egypt	Barytherium grave (79700)
Priabonian	37.71 - 33.9	Egypt (Fayum)	Barytherium grave (175910)
Late/Upper Eocene - Early/Lower Oligocene	37.71 - 27.3	Egypt (Fayum)	Barytherium grave (65960)
Early/Lower Oligocene	33.9 - 27.3	Oman (Dhofar)	Omanitherium dhofarensis (179726) Omanitherium indet. (192926 192927) Omanitherium sp. (192924)