Paenanthracotherium

Paenanthracotherium was a genus of anthracothere that lived in Europe and Asia during the Oligocene.

Paenanthracotherium
Temporal range: Oligocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: †Anthracotheriidae
Genus: †Paenanthracotherium
Species
  • †P. bergeri Scherler, Lihoreau & Becker, 2018 (type)
  • †P. hippoideum (Rutimeyer, 1857)
  • †P. strategus (Forster-Cooper, 1913)

Taxonomy

The type species of the genus is Paenanthracotherium bergeri. The species "Anthracotherium" hippoideum and "Brachyodus" strategus have been re-assigned to this genus based on similarities with P. bergeri.[1]

Distribution

Fossils of Paenanthracotherium are known from France, Germany, Pakistan, Romania, and Switzerland.[1]

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References
  1. Laureline Scherler; Fabrice Lihoreau; Damien Becker (2018). "To split or not to split Anthracotherium? A phylogeny of Anthracotheriinae (Cetartiodactyla: Hippopotamoidea) and its palaeobiogeographical implications". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. Online edition. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zly052.


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