Paenanthracotherium

Paenanthracotherium was a genus of anthracothere that lived in Europe and Asia during the Oligocene.

Paenanthracotherium Temporal range: Oligocene
Life restoration of "P. bergeri"
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Family:	†Anthracotheriidae
Subfamily:	†Anthracotheriinae
Genus:	†Paenanthracotherium Rutimeyer, 1857
Species
†P. bergeri Scherler, Lihoreau & Becker, 2018 (type) †P. hippoideum (Rutimeyer, 1857) †P. strategus (Forster-Cooper, 1913)

Taxonomy

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]

Distribution

Fossils of Paenanthracotherium are known from France, Germany, Pakistan, Romania, and Switzerland.^[1]