Mammalia - Ungulata - Anthracotheriidae
Full reference: E. Douglass. 1902. Fossil Mammalia of the White River beds of Montana. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 20:237-279
Parent taxon: Bothriodontinae according to W. B. Scott 1940
See also Alroy 2002, Carroll 1988 and McKenna and Bell 1997
Sister taxa: Bakalovia, Bothriodon, Bothriogenys, Brachyodus, Elomeryx, Libycosaurus, Merycopotamus, Octacodon
Subtaxa: Arretotherium acridens Arretotherium fricki Arretotherium leptodus Arretotherium meridionale
Type: Arretotherium acridens
Ecology: ground dwelling grazer
Distribution:
• Miocene of Canada (2: Saskatchewan collections), United States (6: Nebraska, South Dakota, Texas)
• Harrisonian of Canada (1: Saskatchewan), United States (4: Montana, Nebraska, South Dakota)
• Arikareean of Panama (1), United States (2: Nebraska, South Dakota)
• Oligocene of United States (2: South Dakota)
Total: 18 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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