Anthracobune

Quality 0.50 · 2 views · Updated 2 months ago

Eocene-epoch mammal

title: "Anthracobune" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["anthracobunidae", "prehistoric-perissodactyla", "eocene-perissodactyla", "paleogene-mammals-of-asia", "prehistoric-placental-genera", "fossil-taxa-described-in-1940"] description: "Eocene-epoch mammal" topic_path: "general/anthracobunidae" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthracobune" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Eocene-epoch mammal ::

| fossil_range = | image = Anthracobune NT.jpg | image_upright = 1.2 | image_caption = Life restoration | taxon = Anthracobune | authority = | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision_ref = | subdivision = * A. pinfoldi (type)

  • A. wardi Dehm and Oettingen-Spielberg, 1958 | range_map = Anthracobune distribution.svg | range_map_caption = The inferred range of Anthracobune

Anthracobune ("coal mound") is an extinct genus of stem perissodactyl from the middle Eocene of the Upper Kuldana Formation of Kohat, Punjab, Pakistan.

The size of a small tapir, it lived in a marshy environment and fed on soft aquatic plants. It is the largest-known anthracobunid. This group was formerly classified with proboscideans.

Notes

References

References

  1. (2014-10-08). "Anthracobunids from the Middle Eocene of India and Pakistan Are Stem Perissodactyls". PLOS ONE.
  2. "Fossilworks: Anthracobune".

::callout[type=info title="Wikipedia Source"] This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page. ::

anthracobunidaeprehistoric-perissodactylaeocene-perissodactylapaleogene-mammals-of-asiaprehistoric-placental-generafossil-taxa-described-in-1940