†family Cainotheriidae Cope 1881 (even-toed ungulate)
Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Cainotheriidae
Parent taxon: Cainotherioidea according to R. Weppe et al. 2019
See also Becker et al. 2010, McKenna and Bell 1997, Spaulding et al. 2009 and Vianey-Liaud et al. 2014
Sister taxon: Robiacinidae
Subtaxa: Cainotheriinae Oxacroninae
Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser
Distribution:
• Miocene of France (14 collections), Germany (8), Portugal (1), Spain (10), Switzerland (4)
• Oligocene of Belgium (1), the Czech Republic (1), France (15), Germany (3), Switzerland (1)
• Eocene to Oligocene of France (1)
• Eocene of France (10), Germany (1), Spain (1), Switzerland (1), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 73 collections including 93 occurrences