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| Brachyodus Temporal range: Early Miocene | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Placentalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | †Anthracotheriidae |
| Genus: | †Brachyodus |
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Brachyodus was a genus of anthracothere that lived in Europe during the Early Miocene.
Taxonomy
[edit]The type and only species of this genus is B. onoideus. The nominal species "Brachyodus" strategus has been reassigned to Paenanthracotherium based on similarities with P. bergeri.[1] Likewise, the putative Asian species "B." japonicus was referred to Elomeryx by Tsubamoto and Kohno (2011).[2]
Distribution
[edit]Fossils of Brachyodus are known from latest early Miocene deposits in Europe.[3] It has also been reported from the late Burdigalian fossil site of Tagay, located on Olkhon Island in Lake Baikal.[4]
Palaeobiology
[edit]Palaeoecology
[edit]The microanatomy of its long bones suggests B. onoideus was mostly terrestrial but that it did possess some semi-aquatic adaptations reflecting a slight degree of water dependence.[5]
References
[edit]- ↑ Laureline Scherler; Fabrice Lihoreau; Damien Becker (2018). "To split or not to split Anthracotherium? A phylogeny of Anthracotheriinae (Cetartiodactyla: Hippopotamoidea) and its palaeobiogeographical implications". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. Online edition. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zly052.
- ↑ Tsubamoto, T. and N. Kohno (2011). Reappraisal of "Brachyodus" japonicus, an Oligocene anthracotheriid cetartiodactyl from Japan. Paleontological Research, Vol.15, Number 3.
- ↑ Antunes, M.T. and L. Ginsburg (2003). The last Anthracothere Brachyodus onoideus (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) from westernmost Europe and its extinction. Ciencias da Terra (UNL), Number 15.
- ↑ Erbajeva, Margarita; Alexeeva, Nadezhda (2013-05-14), "Late Cenozoic Mammal Faunas of the Baikalian Region: Composition, Biochronology, Dispersal, and Correlation with Central Asia", in Fortelius, Mikael; Wang, Xiaoming; Flynn, Lawrence (eds.), Fossil Mammals of Asia: Neogene Biostratigraphy and Chronology, Columbia University Press, p. 0, ISBN 978-0-231-15012-5, retrieved 2025-02-02
- ↑ Houssaye, Alexandra; Martin, Florian; Boisserie, Jean-Renaud; Lihoreau, Fabrice (13 March 2021). "Paleoecological Inferences from Long Bone Microanatomical Specializations in Hippopotamoidea (Mammalia, Artiodactyla)". Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 28 (3): 847–870. doi:10.1007/s10914-021-09536-x. ISSN 1064-7554. Retrieved 18 September 2025 – via Springer Nature Link.
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