Anthracotherium sinense Zdansky 1930 (anthracothere)

Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Anthracotheriidae

Full reference: O. Zdansky. 1930. Die alttertiären Säugetiere Chinas nebst stratigraphischen Bemerkungen (Mammalian fauna of the Lower Tertiary from China and some stratigraphic remarks). Palaeontologia Sinica, Series C 7(2):1-87

Belongs to Anthracotherium according to O. Zdansky 1930

Sister taxa: Anthracotherium alsaticum, Anthracotherium bellia, Anthracotherium bugtiense, Anthracotherium chaimanei, Anthracotherium changlingensis, Anthracotherium chengbiensis, Anthracotherium crassum, Anthracotherium cuvieri, Anthracotherium gungkangensis, Anthracotherium kwablianicum, Anthracotherium magnum, Anthracotherium monsvialense, Anthracotherium pangan, Anthracotherium pygmaeum, Anthracotherium seckbachense, Anthracotherium valdense, Anthracotherium verhoeveni

Type specimen: Its type locality is Heti Formation Locality 1, which is in a Sharamurunian channel marl/sandstone in the Heti Formation of China

Ecology: ground dwelling browser

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Anthracotherium sinense in the database

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