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Bothriodon

Mammalia - Anthracotheriidae

Taxonomy
Bothriodon was named by Aymard (1846) [type is the European species B. velaunus von Meyer 1832]. It is not extant.

It was synonymized subjectively with Ancodon by Hay (1902) and Andrews (1906).

It was assigned to Anthracotheriidae by Aymard (1846), Scott (1913), Carroll (1988), McKenna and Bell (1997) and Thewissen et al. (2001); and to Bothriodontinae by Scott (1940) and Scherler et al. (2019).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1846Bothriodon Aymard
1848Hyopotamus Owen
1848Ancodus Pomel pp. 324-325
1857Choeropotamus (Hyopotamus) Leidy p. 89
1857Hyopotamus Leidy p. 89
1908Ancodus Lambe
1913Bothriodon Scott p. 361
1940Bothriodon Scott p. 443 figs. Plates XLV, XLVI, XLVIII
1988Bothriodon Carroll
1997Bothriodon McKenna and Bell p. 405
2001Bothriodon Thewissen et al. p. suppl.
2019Bothriodon Scherler et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
RankNameAuthor
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—Boreoeutheria
—Laurasiatheria
—Scrotifera
—Euungulata
—Artiodactylamorpha
—Artiodactyla()
—Whippomorpha
superfamilyHippopotamoideaGray 1821
familyAnthracotheriidaeLeidy 1869
subfamilyBothriodontinae
genusBothriodonAymard 1846

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. †Bothriodon Aymard 1846
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†Bothriodon advena Russell 1978
†Bothriodon chowi Xu 1961
†Bothriodon sandaensis Tsubamoto 2007
†Bothriodon velaunus von Meyer 1832
Invalid names: Ancodus Pomel 1848 [synonym], Hyopotamus Leidy 1857 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialo
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: ground dwellingf
Diet: browserf
Reproduction: viviparoussubc
Created: 2005-08-31 14:33:14
Modified: 2005-08-31 16:33:14
Source: f = family, o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Kron and Manning 1998, Lillegraven 1979, Nowak 1999

Age range: base of the Middle Eocene to the top of the Orellan or 47.80000 to 33.30000 Ma

Collections (11 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Middle Eocene47.8 - 37.71China (Yunnan) B. sp. (36668)
Middle Eocene - Late/Upper Eocene47.8 - 33.9Japan (Hyogo) B. sandaensis (74903)
Chadronian37.2 - 33.9Canada (Saskatchewan) B. advena (16919)
Late/Upper Eocene37.2 - 33.9Mongolia (Dornogobi Aimag) B. sp. (152082)
Late/Upper Eocene37.2 - 33.9Mongolia (Dornogov) B. sp. (174716 176016)
Late/Upper Eocene37.2 - 33.9China (Yunnan) B. chowi (182580)
Middle Chadronian37.2 - 33.9Canada (Saskatchewan) B. sp. (16928)
Chadronian - Orellan37.2 - 33.3USA (Florida) B. sp. (18576)
Orellan33.9 - 33.3USA (North Dakota) B. sp. (17101)
Early/Lower Oligocene33.9 - 28.4France (Auvergne Region) B. velaunum (31767)