Anchitheriomys

Anchitheriomys Temporal range: early Oligocene to middle Miocene
Conservation status
Fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Suborder:	Castorimorpha
Family:	Castoridae
Subfamily:	†Agnotocastorinae
Tribe:	†Anchitheriomyini
Genus:	†Anchitheriomys Roger, 1885
Type species
†Anchitheriomys weidemanni
Species
†A. fluminis †A. stouti †A. tungurensis †A. weidemanni
Synonyms
Amblycastor Matthew, 1918

Anchitheriomys is an extinct member of the beaver family, Castoridae. Until recently, it was placed in a closely related family of rodents, Eutypomyidae (e.g. McKenna and Bell, 1997), but Korth and Emry (1997) have since described a partial skull that shows similarities to another early beaver, Agnotocastor.

References

• Korth W.W., and Emry, Robert J. 1997. The skull of Anchitheriomys and a new subfamily of beavers (Castoridae, Rodentia) Journal of Paleontology 71(2):343-347.
• McKenna, Malcolm C., and Bell, Susan K. 1997. Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. Columbia University Press, New York, 631 pp. ISBN 0-231-11013-8