Anthracobune

Anthracobune is an extinct genus of stem perissodactyl from the middle Eocene of the Upper Kuldana Formation of Kohat, Punjab, Pakistan.

Anthracobune

Nobu Tamura · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AnthracobunidaePBDB
Diet
browser, grazerPBDB, for Perissodactyla
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Perissodactyla
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At most 11 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 37.71 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Eocene — about 21 of 21 occurrencesEocene48–48 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 1 occurrence47–47 Mya — about 1 occurrence47–47 Mya — about 1 occurrence47–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence46–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence46–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence46–45 Mya — about 1 occurrence45–45 Mya — about 1 occurrence45–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–42 Mya — about 1 occurrence42–42 Mya — about 1 occurrence42–41 Mya — about 1 occurrence41–41 Mya — about 1 occurrence41–41 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences39–39 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences39–39 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences38–38 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences38–38 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences48.6 Mya37.2 Mya

21 occurrences of Anthracobune on record, most of them in the Eocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

21 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

3 formations

Kuldana — 33.78°N, 72.68°EKuldana — 33.62°N, 71.92°EKuldana — 33.64°N, 72.19°EKuldana — 33.63°N, 72.33°ESubathu — 33.24°N, 74.36°ESubathu — 33.51°N, 73.94°E

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The named rock units Anthracobune has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Anthracobune and its relatives

Eocene

Where Anthracobune and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

69 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Anthracobune, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

9 references

Each of the 21 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Anthracobune

Credit
Nobu Tamura
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Anthracobune was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itAnthracobunidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pilgrim 1940