Anthracobune

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Anthracobune
Fossil range: middle Eocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Proboscidea
Family: †Anthracobunidae
Genus: †Anthracobune
Pilgrim, 1940
Species
  • †A. pinfoldi Pilgrim, 1940

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.

[edit] 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.