
Anthracobunidae
Sign in to savethumb|Parsimony analyses consensus tree for phylogeny of anthracobunids from cladistic study by Cooper et al. (2014), showing them (near the bottom) placed within Perissodactyla next to [[Desmostylia.]]
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thumb|Parsimony analyses consensus tree for phylogeny of anthracobunids from cladistic study by Cooper et al. (2014), showing them (near the bottom) placed within Perissodactyla next to [[Desmostylia.]]
Anthracobunidae is an extinct family of stem perissodactyls that lived in the early to middle Eocene period. They were originally considered to be a paraphyletic family of primitive proboscideans possibly ancestral to the Moeritheriidae and the desmostylians. The family has also thought to be ancestral to the Sirenia.
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