- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
-
One Tectonics and Geomorphology of Africa during the Phanerozoic -
Two Chronology of Paleogene Mammal Localities -
Three Chronology of Neogene Mammal Localities -
Four Global and African Regional Climate during the Cenozoic -
Five A Review of the Cenozoic Vegetation History of Africa -
Twenty-Six Creodonta -
Twenty-Seven Prionogalidae (Mammalia Incertae Sedis) -
Twenty-Eight Primitive Ungulates (“Condylarthra” and Stem Paenungulata) -
Twenty-Nine Neogene Insectivora -
Thirty Chiroptera -
Thirty-One Pholidota -
Thirty-Two Carnivora -
Thirty-Three Chalicotheriidae -
Thirty-Four Rhinocerotidae -
Thirty-Five Equidae -
Thirty-Six Tragulidae -
Thirty-Seven Pecora Incertae Sedis -
Thirty-Eight Bovidae -
Thirty-Nine Giraffoidea -
Forty Cervidae -
Forty-One Camelidae -
Forty-Two Suoidea -
Forty-Three Anthracotheriidae -
Forty-Four Hippopotamidae -
Forty-Five Cetacea -
Forty-Six Systematics of Endemic African Mammals -
Forty-Seven Mammal Species Richness in Africa -
Forty-Eight Stable Carbon and Oxygen Isotopes in East African Mammals: Modern and Fossil - Index
Anthracotheriidae
Anthracotheriidae
- Chapter:
- (p.843) Forty-Three Anthracotheriidae
- Source:
- Cenozoic Mammals of Africa
- Author(s):
Patricia A. Holroyd
Fabrice Lihoreau
Gregg F. Gunnell
Ellen R. Miller
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
Anthracotheriidae are a group of bunodont to selenodont artiodactyls distributed throughout the Old World and North America. The earliest anthracotheriids appear in the latest middle Eocene in Asia, and they survive into the late Miocene in Africa and Asia. Because members of the family are widespread, the group has often been important for interpretations of biogeography. Anthracotheres have also been pivotal in discussions of mammalian phylogeny. In Africa, members of the family are first recorded from the late Eocene Qasr el Sagha Formation, Egypt, and the family persists through the late Miocene. During the Miocene, anthracotheres had an extended range across eastern, central, southern, and northern Africa, although their diversity in Africa appears to have always been greatest in North Africa. Black (1978) provided the first review of the entire African record of this family. The Paleogene forms have since been considerably revised by Ducrocq (1997) and the Neogene ones by Pickford (1991b). A number of studies have elucidated the systematics, paleoecology, and biogeographic relationships of African anthracotheres.
Keywords: Anthracotheriidae, artiodactyls, anthracotheriids, Eocene, Miocene, Africa, biogeography, systematics, paleoecology, anthracotheres
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
-
One Tectonics and Geomorphology of Africa during the Phanerozoic -
Two Chronology of Paleogene Mammal Localities -
Three Chronology of Neogene Mammal Localities -
Four Global and African Regional Climate during the Cenozoic -
Five A Review of the Cenozoic Vegetation History of Africa -
Twenty-Six Creodonta -
Twenty-Seven Prionogalidae (Mammalia Incertae Sedis) -
Twenty-Eight Primitive Ungulates (“Condylarthra” and Stem Paenungulata) -
Twenty-Nine Neogene Insectivora -
Thirty Chiroptera -
Thirty-One Pholidota -
Thirty-Two Carnivora -
Thirty-Three Chalicotheriidae -
Thirty-Four Rhinocerotidae -
Thirty-Five Equidae -
Thirty-Six Tragulidae -
Thirty-Seven Pecora Incertae Sedis -
Thirty-Eight Bovidae -
Thirty-Nine Giraffoidea -
Forty Cervidae -
Forty-One Camelidae -
Forty-Two Suoidea -
Forty-Three Anthracotheriidae -
Forty-Four Hippopotamidae -
Forty-Five Cetacea -
Forty-Six Systematics of Endemic African Mammals -
Forty-Seven Mammal Species Richness in Africa -
Forty-Eight Stable Carbon and Oxygen Isotopes in East African Mammals: Modern and Fossil - Index
