†Merycopotamus Falconer and Cautley 1847 (anthracothere)
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Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Anthracotheriidae
Parent taxon: Bothriodontinae according to J.-R. Boisserie et al. 2010
See also Boisserie et al. 2005, Carroll 1988, McKenna and Bell 1997, Orliac et al. 2010 and Owen 1848
Sister taxa: Bakalovia, Bothriodon, Bothriogenys, Brachyodus, Elomeryx, Libycosaurus, Octacodon
Subtaxa: Merycopotamus dissimilis Merycopotamus medioximus Merycopotamus pusillus
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution:
• Miocene of Pakistan (3 collections), Thailand (2), Tunisia (3)
Total: 8 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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