Biology:Merycopotamus
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Short description: Extinct genus of Asian anthracothere mammal.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | †Anthracotheriidae |
| Subfamily: | †Bothriodontinae |
| Genus: | †Merycopotamus Falconer & Cautley, 1847 |
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| †Merycopotamus dissimilis | |
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Merycopotamus is an extinct genus of Asian anthracothere that appeared during the Middle Miocene, and died out in the Late Pliocene. At the height of the genus' influence, species ranged throughout southern Asia.[2] With the extinction of the last species, M. dissimilis, the lineage of anthracotheres came to an end. Merycopotamus was closely related to the anthracothere genus Libycosaurus, which, unlike the former, never left Africa.[3] In fact, some African fossils originally placed in Merycopotamus, but are now referred to Libycosaurus.[2][4]
References
- ↑ Hanta, R.; Ratanasthien, B.; Kunimatsu, Y.; Saegusa, H.; Nakaya, H.; Nagaoka, S.; Jintasakul, S. (2008). "A New Species of Bothriodontinae, Merycopotamus thachangensis (Cetartiodactyla, Anthracotheriidae) from the Late Miocene of Nakhon Ratchasima, Northeastern Thailand". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28 (4): 1182–1188. doi:10.1671/0272-4634-28.4.1182.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Lihoreau, F.; J. Barry; C. Blondel; Y. Chiamanee; J.-J. Jaeger; M. Brunet (2007). "Anatomical revision of the genus Merycopotamus (Artiodactyla; Anthracotheriidae): its significance for late Miocene mammal dispersal in Asia". Palaeontology 50 (2): 503–524. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2006.00643.x.
- ↑ Lihoreau, Fabrice et al. (2006). "Anthracothere dental anatomy reveals a late Miocene Chado-Libyan bioprovince". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103 (originally published online May 24, 2006): 8763–7. doi:10.1073/pnas.0603126103. PMID 16723392. PMC 1482652. Bibcode: 2006PNAS..103.8763L. http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/103/23/8763.pdf.
- ↑ Pickford, Martin (2006). "Sexual and individual morphometric variation in Libycosaurus (Mammalia, Anthracotheriidae) from the Maghreb and Libya". Geobios 39 (2): 267–310. doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2004.06.006.
Wikidata ☰ Q1922211 entry
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