Anthracobune
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Anthracobune
| Anthracobune Temporal range: middle Eocene |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Proboscidea |
| Family: | †Anthracobunidae |
| Genus: | †Anthracobune Pilgrim, 1940 |
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Anthracobune ("Coal mound") is an extinct genus of an early proboscidean from the middle Eocene of the Upper Kuldana Formation of Kohat, Punjab Province, 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.
References
- N.A. Wells and P.D. Gingerich. 1983. Review of Eocene Anthracobunidae (Mammalia, Proboscidea) with a new genus and species, Jozaria palustris, from the Kuldana Formation of Kohat (Pakistan). Contrib. Mus. Pal. Univ. Michigan 26(7): 117-139.
- G. E. Pilgrim, 1940. Middle Eocene mammals from north-west Pakistan. Proceedings of the Zoological Society, London, Series B, 110: 127-152.
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