PaleoDB taxon number: 42980
Full reference: R. Owen. 1848. Description of teeth and portions of jaws of two extinct Anthracotherioid quadrupeds (Hyopotamus vectianus and Hyop. bovinus) discovered by the Marchioness of Hastings in the Eocene deposits on the NW coast of the Isle of Wight: with an attempt to develope Cuvier's idea of the Classification of Pachyderms by the number of their toes. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 4:103-141
Parent taxon: Placentalia according to L. N. Cooper et al. 2014
Sister taxa: Afrotheria, Americatheria, Atlantogenata, Boreoeutheria, Educabilia, Epitheria, Euarchontoglires, Exafroplacentalia, Ineducabilia, Ishatherium, Laurasiatheria, Lipotyphla, Petrolemuridae, Pseudorhyncocyonidae, Tingamarra, Ungulatomorpha, Mutilata
Subtaxa: Anthracobunidae, Brontotheriidae, Cambaytheriidae, Cambaytherium, Desmostylia, Equina, Ghazijhippus, Hallensia, Hippopotamus iravaticus, Hyracotheriidae, Lophodontomorpha, Mesaxonia, Mesolambdolophus, Nakusia, Paschatherium, Perissobune, Rhinocerotida, Selenida, Skopaiolophus, Solidungula, Stereopterna, Tapiromorpha, Teilhardimys, Titanotheriomorpha
Ecology: ground dwelling browser-grazer