†family Arsinoitheriidae Andrews 1904 (placental)

Mammalia - Embrithopoda - Arsinoitheriidae

Parent taxon: Embrithopoda according to O. Erdal et al. 2016

See also Andrews 1906, Carroll 1988, Pickford et al. 2008, Radulesco and Sudre 1985 and Sen and Heintz 1979

Sister taxa: Lunania, Namatherium, Stylolophidae, Stylolophus

Subtaxa: Arsinoitheriinae Arsinoitherium Palaeoamasiinae

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Ecology: scansorial insectivore

Distribution:

• Oligocene of Angola (1 collection), Egypt (2), Ethiopia (1), Kenya (1), Oman (5), Saudi Arabia (1), Turkey (1)

• Eocene of Libya (1), Oman (1), Romania (1), Tunisia (1), Turkey (6)

Total: 22 collections including 26 occurrences

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