Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Anthracotheriidae
Alternative spelling: Anthracotheridae
Parent taxon: Hippopotamoidea according to L. Scherler et al. 2019
See also Andrews 1906, Anyonge 1991, Boisserie et al. 2011, Boisserie et al. 2005, Boisserie et al. 2010, Carroll 1988, Cope 1889, Flower and Lydekker 1891, Gregory 1910, Hay 1902, Jaekel 1911, Lambe 1908, Leidy 1873, McKenna and Bell 1997, Montgelard et al. 1997, Pilgrim 1940, Sach and Heizmann 2001, Sahni and Khare 1971, Scott 1913, Scott 1940, Spaulding et al. 2009 and Thewissen et al. 2001
Sister taxa: Anthracothema, Hippopotamidae, Myaingtherium, Siamotherium
Subtaxa: Aepinacodon Afromeryx Ancodon Anthracochoerus Anthracosenex Anthracotheriinae Arretotherium Atopotherium Bothriodontinae Bugtitherium Bunobrachyodus Choeromeryx Elliottherium Elotherium Epirigenys Gonotelma Hemimeryx Heothema Huananothema Kukusepasutanka Masritherium Merycops Microbunodontinae Pachychoerops Parabrachyodus Probrachyodus Qatraniodon Sivameryx Telmatodon Ulausuodon
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution:
• Miocene of Austria (3 collections), Canada (2: Saskatchewan), Chad (2), Egypt (2), France (10), Germany (1), Greece (2), Hungary (1), India (5), Kazakhstan (1), Kenya (9), Libya (1), Namibia (2), Nepal (3), Pakistan (38), Portugal (5), Switzerland (3), Thailand (2), Tunisia (4), Uganda (6), United States (8: Delaware, Nebraska, New Jersey, South Dakota, Texas)
• Harrisonian of Canada (1: Saskatchewan), United States (4: Montana, Nebraska, South Dakota)
• Arikareean of Panama (1), United States (5: Montana, Nebraska, South Dakota)
• Oligocene to Miocene of France (1), Kazakhstan (1), Pakistan (1)
• Oligocene of Canada (5: Saskatchewan), China (7), the Czech Republic (2), Egypt (12), France (25), Georgia (1), Germany (6), Greece (1), India (1), Italy (6), Japan (3), Kenya (4), Libya (2), Oman (1), Pakistan (10), Romania (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Slovenia (1), Switzerland (9), United States (15: California, Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota)
• Eocene to Oligocene of United States (1: Florida)
• Eocene of Algeria (1), Bulgaria (1), Canada (5: Saskatchewan), China (31), Croatia (1), Egypt (1), France (1), Italy (1), Japan (2), Mongolia (5), Myanmar (18), Namibia (1), Pakistan (1), Thailand (3), the United Kingdom (1), United States (13: Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Wyoming), Vietnam (2)
Total: 326 collections including 428 occurrences