Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Anthracotheriidae

Full reference: O. C. Marsh. 1894. Eastern division of the Miohippus beds, with notes on some of the characteristic fossils. American Journal of Science 48(283):91-94

Parent taxon: Bothriodontinae according to W. B. Scott 1940

See also Hay 1902, Kron and Manning 1998, Macdonald 1956 and McKenna and Bell 1997

Sister taxa: Bakalovia, Bothriodon, Bothriogenys, Brachyodus, Elomeryx, Libycosaurus, Merycopotamus

Subtaxa: none

Type: Octacodon valens

Ecology: ground dwelling browser

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Octacodon in the database

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