Anthracobune

Taxobox
name = "Anthracobune"
fossil_range = middle Eocene
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Proboscidea
familia = †Anthracobunidae
genus = †"Anthracobune"
genus_authority = Pilgrim, 1940
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =
* †"A. pinfoldi" Pilgrim, 1940

"Anthracobune" ("Coal mound") is an extinct genus of an early proboscidean from the middle Eocene of the Upper Kuldana Formation of Kohat, Punjab Province, Pakistan.

The size of a small tapir, it lived in a marshy environment and fed on soft aquatic plants. It is the largest known anthracobunid.

References

* N.A. Wells and P.D. Gingerich. 1983. Review of Eocene Anthracobunidae (Mammalia, Proboscidea) with a new genus and species, "Jozaria palustris", from the Kuldana Formation of Kohat (Pakistan). Contrib. Mus. Pal. Univ. Michigan 26(7): 117-139.
* G. E. Pilgrim, 1940. Middle Eocene mammals from north-west Pakistan. Proceedings of the Zoological Society, London, Series B, 110: 127-152.