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Anthracobune wardi

Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Anthracobunidae

Taxonomy
Anthracobune wardi was named by Pilgrim (1940) [Pilgrim (1940) named a species wardi, and assigned it to "Genus indet. (aff. Anthracobune). Dehm & Oettingen-Spielberg (1958) assigned it to Anthracobune.]. Its type specimen is M15799 (M/1 or M/2 in British Museum), a tooth, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Lammidhan, which is in a Lutetian terrestrial siliciclastic in the Kuldana Formation of Pakistan.

It was recombined as Pilgrimella wardi by Dehm and Oettingen-Spielberg (1958); it was recombined as Lammidhania wardi by West (1980) and Wells and Gingerich (1983).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1940Anthracobune wardi Pilgrim pp. 138-140 figs. Pl. I, figs. 3, 3a
1958Pilgrimella wardi Dehm and Oettingen-Spielberg p. 36
1980Lammidhania wardi West p. 528
1983Lammidhania wardi Wells and Gingerich pp. 120-121 figs. 1A,B; 2A,B
2014Anthracobune wardi Cooper et al. p. 5
2020Anthracobune wardi Rose et al. p. 18 figs. Table 4

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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()
—Mammaliamorpha
RankNameAuthor
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
—Theriiformes()
—Trechnotheria
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—Boreoeutheria
—Laurasiatheria
—Scrotifera
—Euungulata
—Panperissodactyla
superorderPerissodactylamorpha
orderPerissodactyla()
familyAnthracobunidaeWells and Gingerich 1983
genusAnthracobune
specieswardi

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.

†Anthracobune wardi Pilgrim 1940
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
G.E. Pilgrim 1940Lower molars with high length/width ratio, the m3 short, paraconid and metaconid of lower premolars small, anterior premolars long.
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: ground dwellingo
Diet: browsero
Diet 2: grazero
Reproduction: viviparoussubc
Created: 2005-08-26 13:57:26
Modified: 2005-08-26 15:57:26
Source: o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Lillegraven 1979, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Nowak 1999, Ji et al. 2002

Age range: Lutetian or 47.80000 to 41.30000 Ma

Collections (7 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Lutetian47.8 - 41.3Pakistan Anthracobune wardi (45587)
Lutetian47.8 - 41.3Pakistan (Punjab) Anthracobune wardi (45586 49844 type locality: 53001 180694) Pilgrimella wardi, Anthracobune daviesi (45529)
Lutetian47.8 - 41.3Pakistan (North-West Frontier) Lammidhania wardi (28978)