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Arsinoitherium

Mammalia - Embrithopoda - Arsinoitheriidae

Taxonomy

Arsinoitherium was named by Beadnell (1902).

It was assigned to Embrithopoda by Court (1990); and to Arsinoitheriidae by Andrews (1906), Rasmussen and Gutierrez (2009) and Gheerbrant et al. (2021).

Species

A. giganteum, A. zitelli, A. zitteli (syn. A. andrewsi)

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1902	Arsinoitherium Beadnell
1906	Arsinoitherium Andrews p. 2
1990	Arsinoitherium Court p. 170
2009	Arsinoitherium Rasmussen and Gutierrez
2021	Arsinoitherium Gheerbrant et al.

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
subclass	Synapsida
—	Therapsida	()

Rank	Name	Author
infraorder	Cynodontia	()
—	Mammaliamorpha
—	Mammaliaformes
class	Mammalia
—	Theriamorpha	(Rowe 1993)
—	Theriiformes	()
—	Trechnotheria
—	Cladotheria
—	Zatheria
subclass	Tribosphenida	()
subclass	Theria
—	Eutheria	()
—	Placentalia
—	Afrotheria	Stanhope et al. 1998
—	Tethytheria
order	Embrithopoda
family	Arsinoitheriidae	Andrews 1904
genus	Arsinoitherium	Beadnell 1902

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. †Arsinoitherium Beadnell 1902

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†Arsinoitherium giganteum Sanders et al. 2004

†Arsinoitherium zitelli Beadnell 1902

†Arsinoitherium zitteli Beadnell 1902

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Invalid names: Arsinoitherium andrewsi Lankester 1903 [synonym]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

phosphaticsubp

Environment:

terrestrialsubc

Locomotion:

actively mobilec

Life habit:

scansorialsubc

Diet:

insectivoresubc

Reproduction:

viviparoussubc

Created:

2005-09-06 20:43:42

Modified:

2005-09-06 22:44:32

Source: subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum

References: Ji et al. 2002, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Lillegraven 1979

Age range: base of the Bartonian to the top of the Chattian or 41.30000 to 23.03000 Ma

Collections (13 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Bartonian	41.3 - 38.0	Oman	A. sp. (84510)
Bartonian - Late/Upper Eocene	41.3 - 33.9	Libya	A. sp. (55449)
Late/Upper Eocene	37.2 - 33.9	Tunisia	A. sp. (182490)
Early/Lower Oligocene	33.9 - 28.4	Oman (Dhofar)	A. andrewsi (179726) Arsinoitherium indet. (162464 175334 192927)
Rupelian	33.9 - 28.1	Egypt (Fayum)	A. sp. (60127) A. zitteli, A. andrewsi (65960)
Rupelian	33.9 - 28.1	Angola (Cabinda)	Arsinoitherium indet. (56682)
Oligocene	33.9 - 23.03	Saudi Arabia (Al Hijaz)	A. zitteli (97221)
Late/Upper Oligocene	28.4 - 23.03	Kenya (Turkana)	A. sp. (174662)
Chattian	28.1 - 23.03	Ethiopia	A. sp. (71941)