†family Arsinoitheriidae Andrews 1904 (placental)

Mammalia - Embrithopoda - Arsinoitheriidae

Parent taxon: Embrithopoda according to O. Erdal et al. 2016

See also Andrews 1906, Carroll 1988, Gheerbrant et al. 2025, Pickford et al. 2008, Radulesco and Sudre 1985 and Sen and Heintz 1979

Sister taxa: Lunania, Namatherium, Stylolophidae, Stylolophus

Subtaxa: Arsinoitheriinae Arsinoitherium Palaeoamasiinae

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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 Libya (1), Oman (1), Romania (1), Tunisia (1), Türkiye (7)

Total: 23 collections including 28 occurrences

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