†order Embrithopoda (placental)
Parent taxon: Tethytheria according to E. Gheerbrant et al. 2018
See also Carroll 1988, Court 1990, Erdal et al. 2016, Gheerbrant et al. 2025, Gregory 1910, McKenna 1975, Prothero and Schoch 1989 and Simpson 1945
Sister taxa: Behemota, Proboscidea, Sirenia
Subtaxa: Arsinoitheriidae Lunania Namatherium Stylolophidae Stylolophus
Ecology: scansorial insectivore
Distribution:
• Oligocene of Angola (1 collection), Egypt (1), Ethiopia (1), Kenya (1), Oman (5), Saudi Arabia (1), Türkiye (1)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Egypt (1)
• Eocene of China (3), Libya (1), Morocco (4), Namibia (1), Oman (1), Romania (1), Tunisia (1), Türkiye (8)
Total: 32 collections including 37 occurrences