Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Anthracotheriidae
Full reference: E. Douglass. 1902. Fossil Mammalia of the White River beds of Montana. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 20:237-279
Parent taxon: Anthracotheriidae according to Douglass 1901
See also Carroll 1988, McKenna and Bell 1997, Scott 1913 and Scott 1940
Sister taxa: Aepinacodon, Afromeryx, Ancodon, Anthracochoerus, Anthracosenex, Anthracotheriinae, Atopotherium, Bothriodontinae, Bugtitherium, Bunobrachyodus, Choeromeryx, Elliottherium, Elotherium, Epirigenys, Gonotelma, Hemimeryx, Heothema, Huananothema, Kukusepasutanka, Masritherium, Merycops, Microbunodontinae, Pachychoerops, Parabrachyodus, Probrachyodus, Qatraniodon, Sivameryx, Telmatodon, Ulausuodon
Subtaxa: Arretotherium acridens Arretotherium fricki Arretotherium leptodus Arretotherium meridionale
Type: Arretotherium acridens
Ecology: ground dwelling grazer
Distribution:
• Miocene of Canada (2: Saskatchewan collections), United States (6: Nebraska, South Dakota, Texas)
• Harrisonian of Canada (1: Saskatchewan), United States (4: Montana, Nebraska, South Dakota)
• Arikareean of Panama (1), United States (2: Nebraska, South Dakota)
• Oligocene of United States (2: South Dakota)
Total: 18 collections each including a single occurrence
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