Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Anthracotheriidae
Alternative combinations: Ancodon americanus, Ancodus americanus, Bothriodon americanus, Choeropotamus (Hyopotamus) americanus, Choeropotamus americanus, Hyopotamus americanus
Full reference: J. Leidy. 1856. Notices of Some Remains of Extinct Mammalia, Recently Discovered by Dr. F. V. Hayden, in the Bad Lands of Nebraska. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 8:59
Belongs to Aepinacodon according to J. R. Macdonald 1956
See also Hay 1902, Kron and Manning 1998, Leidy 1856, Leidy 1857, Matthew 1909, Osborn and Wortman 1894, Russell 1978, Scott 1940 and Troxell 1921
Sister taxa: Aepinacodon deflectus, Aepinacodon rostratus
Type specimen: Its type locality is Peanut Peak, which is in a Chadronian terrestrial horizon in the Chadron Formation of South Dakota
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution:
• Oligocene of United States (2: South Dakota collections)
• Eocene of United States (3: Nebraska, South Dakota)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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