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Embolotherium

Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae

Taxonomy

Embolotherium was named by Osborn (1929). It is the type genus of Embolotheriinae.

It was assigned to Brontotheridae by Carroll (1988) and Prothero and Schoch (1989); to Embolotheriinae by Osborn (1929), Granger and Gregory (1943) and Mihlbachler et al. (2004); and to Embolotheriita by Mihlbachler (2008).

Species

E. andrewsi, E. grangeri (syn. Titanodectes ingens, Titanodectes minor, E. insigne, E. loucksii), E. ultimum

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1929	Embolotherium Osborn p. 9
1943	Embolotherium Granger and Gregory p. 364
1988	Embolotherium Carroll
1989	Embolotherium Prothero and Schoch p. 537
2004	Embolotherium Mihlbachler et al. p. 28
2008	Embolotherium Mihlbachler p. 413

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
subclass	Synapsida
—	Therapsida	()
infraorder	Cynodontia	()

Rank	Name	Author
—	Mammaliamorpha
—	Mammaliaformes
class	Mammalia
—	Cladotheria
—	Zatheria
subclass	Tribosphenida	()
subclass	Theria
—	Eutheria	()
—	Placentalia
—	Boreoeutheria
—	Laurasiatheria
—	Scrotifera
—	Euungulata
—	Panperissodactyla
superorder	Perissodactylamorpha
order	Perissodactyla	()
family	Brontotheriidae	()
subfamily	Brontotheriinae	Marsh 1873
—	Embolotheriita	()
genus	Embolotherium

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. †Embolotherium Osborn 1929

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†Embolotherium andrewsi Osborn 1929

†Embolotherium grangeri Osborn 1929

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Invalid names: Embolotherium insigne Yanovskaya 1980 [synonym], Embolotherium loucksii Osborn 1929 [synonym], Titanodectes ingens Granger and Gregory 1943 [synonym], Titanodectes minor Granger and Gregory 1943 [synonym]

†Embolotherium ultimum Granger and Gregory 1943

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

phosphaticsubp

Environment:

terrestrialsubc

Locomotion:

actively mobilec

Life habit:

ground dwellingf

Diet:

browserf

Reproduction:

viviparoussubc

Created:

2005-08-31 14:53:16

Modified:

2005-08-31 16:53:16

Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum

References: Hendy et al. 2009, Lillegraven 1979, Carroll 1988, Ji et al. 2002, Mader 1998

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Eocene to the top of the Early/Lower Oligocene or 37.20000 to 28.40000 Ma

Collections (10 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Eocene	37.2 - 33.9	China (Nei Mongol)	E. andrewsi (174914)
Late/Upper Eocene	37.2 - 33.9	Mongolia (Dornogov)	E. sp. (38303 38309 174716)
Ulangochuian	37.2 - 33.9	China (Nei Mongol)	E. andrewsi (73810) E. grangeri (73809) E. loucksii (73811) E. sp. (73808)
Early/Lower Oligocene	33.9 - 28.4	China (Nei Mongol)	E. grangeri (174915 180729)