Anancus

Anancus
Temporal range:
One of the most complete A. arvernensis skeletons found clay layers near San Giovanni Valdarno and displayed in the Museo di Storia Naturale di Firenze in Tuscany, Italy
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Proboscidea
Superfamily: Elephantoidea
Genus: †Anancus
Aymard, 1855
Species
  • A. alexeevae Baigusheva, 1971
  • A. arvernensis (Croizet and Jobert, 1828) (type)
  • A. capensis Sanders, 2007
  • A. cuneatus Teilhard de Chardin and Trassaert, 1937
  • A. kazachstanensis Aubekerova, 1974
  • A. kenyensis MacInnes, 1942
  • A. lehmanni (Gaziry, 1997)
  • A. osiris Arambourg, 1945
  • A. perimensis (Falconer and Cautley, 1847)
  • A. petrocchii Coppens, 1965
  • A. sinensis Hopwood, 1935
  • A. sivalensis (Cautley, 1836)
  • A. ultimus Sanders, 2011

Anancus is an extinct genus of "tetralophodont gomphothere" native to Afro-Eurasia, that lived from the Tortonian stage of the late Miocene until its extinction during the Early Pleistocene, roughly from 8.5–2 million years ago.

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