Paenanthracotherium
| Paenanthracotherium Temporal range: Oligocene
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| Life restoration of "P. bergeri" | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | †Anthracotheriidae |
| Subfamily: | †Anthracotheriinae |
| Genus: | †Paenanthracotherium Rutimeyer, 1857 |
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Paenanthracotherium is an extinct genus of anthracothere that lived in Europe and Asia during the Oligocene epoch.
Taxonomy
The type species of the genus is Paenanthracotherium bergeri. The species "Anthracotherium" hippoideum and "Brachyodus" strategus have been reassigned to this genus based on similarities with P. bergeri.[1]
Distribution
Fossils of Paenanthracotherium are known from France, Germany, Pakistan, Romania, and Switzerland.[1]
Palaeobiology
Palaeoecology
The microanatomy of its long bones suggests that P. bergeri was fully terrestrial.[2]
References
- ^ a b Laureline Scherler; Fabrice Lihoreau; Damien Becker (2018). "To split or not to split Anthracotherium? A phylogeny of Anthracotheriinae (Cetartiodactyla: Hippopotamoidea) and its palaeobiogeographical implications". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. Online edition. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zly052.
- ^ Houssaye, Alexandra; Martin, Florian; Boisserie, Jean-Renaud; Lihoreau, Fabrice (13 March 2021). "Paleoecological Inferences from Long Bone Microanatomical Specializations in Hippopotamoidea (Mammalia, Artiodactyla)". Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 28 (3): 847–870. doi:10.1007/s10914-021-09536-x. ISSN 1064-7554. Retrieved 17 September 2025 – via Springer Nature Link.