Merycopotamus
Name:
Merycopotamus.
Phonetic: Meh-re-ko-pot-ah-mus.
Named By: Falconer & Cautley - 1847.
Classification: Chordata, Mammalia,
Artiodactyla, Anthracotheriidae, Bothriodontinae.
Species: M. dissimilis
(type), M. medioximus, M. nanus, M.
thachangensis.
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Unavailable.
Known locations: Pakistan. Thailand. Tunisia.
Time period: Mid Miocene through to the end of the
Pliocene.
Fossil representation: Partial remains of several
individuals.
Merycopotamus is a genus of anthracothere mammal that lived in both Africa and Asia during from the Miocene to Pliocene periods.
Further reading
- 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. - R. Hanta, B.
Ratanasthien, Y. Kunimatsu, H. Saegusa, H. Nakaya, S.
Nagaoka & S. Jintasakul - 2008.
- Anatomical revision of the genus Merycopotamus
(Artiodactyla;
Anthracotheriidae): its significance for late Miocene mammal
dispersal in Asia. - Palaeontology 50 (2): 503–524. -
F. Lihoreau, J. Barry, C. Blondel, Y. Chiamanee,
J.-J. Jaeger & M. Brunet - 2007.
- 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. - R. Hanta, B. Ratanasthien, Y
Kunimatsu, H. Saegusa, H Nakaya, S. Nagaoka & S. Jintasakul -
2008.
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