Arsinoitherium Beadnell 1902 (placental)

Mammalia - Embrithopoda - Arsinoitheriidae

Parent taxon: Arsinoitheriidae according to E. Gheerbrant et al. 2021

See also Andrews 1906, Court 1990 and Rasmussen and Gutierrez 2009

Sister taxa: Arsinoitheriinae, Palaeoamasiinae

Subtaxa: Arsinoitherium giganteum Arsinoitherium zitelli Arsinoitherium zitteli

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Ecology: scansorial insectivore

Distribution:

• Oligocene of Angola (1 collection), Egypt (2), Ethiopia (1), Kenya (1), Oman (4), Saudi Arabia (1)

• Eocene of Libya (1), Oman (1), Tunisia (1)

Total: 13 collections including 14 occurrences

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