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Agriotherium

Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae

Taxonomy
Agriotherium was named by Wagner (1837) [type South Asian A. sivalensis; accidentally ]. Its type is Agriotherium sivalensis.

It was assigned to Agriotheriinae by Hendey (1974); to Hemicyoninae by Qiu et al. (1991); to Ursavini by Hunt (1998); to Ursidae by Wagner (1837), Kurten (1968), Carroll (1988), Salesa et al. (2006) and Werdelin and Peigne (2010); and to Agriotheriini by Chorn and Hoffman (1978) and Jiangzuo et al. (2023).

Species
A. aecuatorialis, A. africanum, A. hendeyi, A. inexpetans, A. insigne, A. palaeindicum, A. sivalensis (type species)
Species lacking formal opinion data
A. roblesi

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1837Agriotherium Wagner
1845Hyaenarctos Falconer and Cautley
1968Agriotherium Kurten p. 119
1974Agriotherium Hendey p. 68
1978Agriotherium Chorn and Hoffman p. 3
1988Agriotherium Carroll
1991Agriotherium Qiu et al.
1998Agriotherium Hunt, Jr. p. 182
2006Agriotherium Salesa et al. p. 381
2010Agriotherium Werdelin and Peigne p. 612
2023Agriotherium Jiangzuo et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
RankNameAuthor
—Theriiformes()
—Trechnotheria
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—Boreoeutheria
—Laurasiatheria
—Scrotifera
—Ferae()
—CarnivoramorphaWyss and Flynn 1993
—CarnivoraformesFlynn et al.
orderCarnivora
suborderCaniformiaKretzoi 1943
infraorderCanoidea(Simpson 1931)
superfamilyArctoideaFlower 1869
—Ursida
superfamilyUrsoideaFischer de Waldheim 1817
familyUrsidaeGray 1825
subfamilyAiluropodinae
tribeAgriotheriini
genusAgriotheriumWagner 1837

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. †Agriotherium Wagner 1837
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†Agriotherium aecuatorialis Morales et al. 2005
†Agriotherium africanum Hendey 1972
†Agriotherium hendeyi Jiangzuo and Flynn 2019
†Agriotherium inexpetans Qiu et al. 1991
†Agriotherium insigne Gervais 1853
†Agriotherium palaeindicum Lydekker 1884
†Agriotherium sivalensis Cautley and Falconer 1836
Invalid names: Hyaenarctos Falconer and Cautley 1845 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: ground dwellingf
Diet: carnivoreg
Diet 2: omnivoreg
Reproduction: viviparoussubc
Comments: "meat/non-vertebrate group" (Van Valkenburgh 1988)g
Created: 2009-01-04 14:35:30
Modified: 2009-01-04 16:35:30
Source: g = genus, f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Nowak 1991, Van Valkenburgh 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Ji et al. 2002, Lillegraven 1979, Carroll 1988

Age range: base of the Messinian to the top of the MN 15 or 7.24600 to 3.20000 Ma

Collections (30 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Miocene23.03 - 5.333USA (Nevada) A. sp. (18841)
Tortonian - Zanclean11.62 - 3.6Ethiopia A. sp. (22139)
Late/Upper Miocene11.608 - 5.333China (Gansu) A. inexpetans (34694)
Late/Upper Miocene - Zanclean11.608 - 3.6Uganda A. aecuatorialis (230937)
Hemphillian10.3 - 4.9USA (Arizona) A. sp. (19272)
Hemphillian10.3 - 4.9USA (Kansas) A. sp. (18140 18241)
Hemphillian10.3 - 4.9USA (California) A. sp. (19446)
Hemphillian10.3 - 4.9USA (Nebraska) A. sp. (18439)
Late/Upper Hemphillian10.3 - 4.9USA (Arizona) A. gregoryi (19612) A. sp. (19514)
Late/Upper Hemphillian10.3 - 4.9USA (California) A. sp. (19306 19604) Hyaenarctos gregoryi (19445)
Late/Upper Hemphillian10.3 - 4.9USA (Texas) A. sp. (18036)
Late/Upper Hemphillian10.3 - 4.9USA (Nebraska) A. sp. (18126 18359)
Turolian8.7 - 5.333Spain (Valencia) A. roblesi (40758)
Messinian7.246 - 5.333Libya A. sp. (102370)
Messinian - Piacenzian7.246 - 2.588South Africa (Cape) A. africanum (59167)
Early/Lower Pliocene5.333 - 3.6Bulgaria (Yambol) A. sivalensis (184410)
Zanclean5.333 - 3.6Ethiopia A. sp. (22160)
Zanclean5.333 - 3.6Libya A. sp. (102372)
Zanclean5.333 - 3.6South Africa A. africanum (22221 22222)
Ruscinian5.333 - 3.2China (Shanxi) A. sp. (42273)
MN 154.2 - 3.2Poland A. intermedium (33396)
MN 15 - MN 164.2 - 2.588Ukraine A. sp. (50943)
Late/Upper Pliocene3.6 - 2.588Greece (Grevena) A. sp. (185859)
Late/Upper Pliocene3.6 - 2.588South Africa (Langebaanweg) A. africanum (21713)