Brachyodus

Brachyodus was a genus of anthracothere that lived in Europe during the Early Miocene.

Brachyodus Temporal range: Early Miocene
jaw bone fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Suborder:	Whippomorpha
Family:	†Anthracotheriidae
Genus:	†Brachyodus
Species
†B. nancrayensis (Pickford, 2025) †B. onoideus (Gervais, 1859) (type) †B. pontigneensis (Pickford, 2025)

Taxonomy

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

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]