Paenanthracotherium
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| Paenanthracotherium Temporal range: Oligocene | |
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| Life restoration of "P. bergeri" | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | †Anthracotheriidae |
| Subfamily: | †Anthracotheriinae |
| Genus: | †Paenanthracotherium Rutimeyer, 1857 |
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Paenanthracotherium is an extinct genus of anthracothere that lived in Europe and Asia during the Oligocene epoch.
The type species of the genus is Paenanthracotherium bergeri. The species "Anthracotherium" hippoideum and "Brachyodus" strategus have been reassigned to this genus based on similarities with P. bergeri.[1]
