Anthracobune
{{Short description|Eocene-epoch mammal}}
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| fossil_range = {{Fossil range|Middle Eocene}}
| image = Anthracobune NT.jpg
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| image_caption = Life restoration
| taxon = Anthracobune
| authority = {{Harvnb|Pilgrim|1940}}
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = * A. pinfoldi (type)
{{Harvnb|Pilgrim|1940}}
- A. wardi
Dehm and Oettingen-Spielberg, 1958
| range_map = Anthracobune distribution.svg
| range_map_caption = The inferred range of Anthracobune
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Anthracobune ("coal mound") is an extinct genus of stem perissodactyl from the middle Eocene of the Upper Kuldana Formation of Kohat, Punjab, Pakistan.{{Cite web|title=Fossilworks: Anthracobune|url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=43233|access-date=17 December 2021|website=fossilworks.org}}
The size of a small tapir, it lived in a marshy environment and fed on soft aquatic plants. It is the largest-known anthracobunid. This group was formerly classified with proboscideans.
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- {{cite journal |last=Kumar |first=Kishor |year=1991 |title=Anthracobune aijiensis nov. sp. (Mammalia: Proboscidea) from the Subathu Formation, Eocene from NW Himalaya, India |journal=Geobios |volume=24 |issue=2 |pages=221–39 |bibcode=1991Geobi..24..221K |doi=10.1016/s0016-6995(91)80010-w |oclc=4656806310}}
- {{cite journal |last=Pilgrim |first=Guy E. |author-link=Guy Ellcock Pilgrim |year=1940 |title=Middle Eocene mammals from north-west Pakistan |journal=Proceedings of the Zoological Society |series=B |location=London |volume=110 |pages=127–152 |doi=10.1111/j.1469-7998.1940.tb00029.x}}
- {{cite journal |last1=Sahni |first1=Ashok |last2=Kumar |first2=Kishor |name-list-style=and |year=1980 |title=Lower Eocene Sirenia, Ishatherium subathuensis, gen. et sp. nov. from the type area, Subathu Formation, Subathu, Simla Himalayas, H. P. |url=http://palaeontologicalsociety.in/vol23_24/v20.pdf |journal=Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India |volume=23&24 |pages=132–5 |access-date=1 July 2013}}
- {{cite journal |last1=Wells |first1=Neil A. |last2=Gingerich |first2=Philip D. |author2-link=Philip D. Gingerich |name-list-style=and |year=1983 |title=Review of Eocene Anthracobunidae (Mammalia, Proboscidea) with a new genus and species, Jozaria palustris, from the Kuldana Formation of Kohat (Pakistan) |url=https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/48515/ID367.pdf |journal=Contrib. Mus. Pal. Univ. Michigan |volume=26 |issue=7 |pages=117–139 |oclc=742731409}}
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{{Perissodactyla Genera|P.}}
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Category:Prehistoric Perissodactyla
Category:Eocene Perissodactyla
Category:Paleogene mammals of Asia