Anthracobune

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Anthracobune
Temporal range: Middle Eocene
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Life restoration
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Family: Anthracobunidae
Genus: Anthracobune
Pilgrim 1940
Species [1]
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The inferred range of Anthracobune

Anthracobune ("coal mound") is an extinct genus of stem perissodactyl from the middle Eocene of the Upper Kuldana Formation of Kohat, Punjab, Pakistan. [2]

The size of a small tapir, it lived in a marshy environment and fed on soft aquatic plants. It is the largest-known anthracobunid. This group was formerly classified with proboscideans.

Notes

  1. Cooper, Lisa Noelle; Seiffert, Erik R.; Clementz, Mark; Madar, Sandra I.; Bajpai, Sunil; Hussain, S. Taseer; Thewissen, J. G. M. (2014-10-08). Farke, Andrew A. (ed.). "Anthracobunids from the Middle Eocene of India and Pakistan Are Stem Perissodactyls". PLOS ONE. 9 (10): e109232. Bibcode:2014PLoSO...9j9232C. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0109232 . PMC   4189980 . PMID   25295875.
  2. "Fossilworks: Anthracobune". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.

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