Bothriogenys

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Bothriogenys
Temporal range: late Eocene to Early Oligocene
Arsinoitherium (top) and Bothriogenys fraasi (bottom)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Anthracotheriidae
Subfamily: Bothriodontinae
Genus: Bothriogenys
Schmidt, 1913
Species
  • B. fraasi Schmidt, 1913 (type)
  • B. andrewsi Schmidt, 1913
  • B. gorringei (Andrews & Beadnell, 1902)
  • B. rugulosus Schmidt, 1913
  • B. orientalis Ducrocq, 1997

Bothriogenys was a

Fayum, Egypt, but one species, B. orientalis, is known from late Eocene deposits in Thailand
.

In life, they would have resembled hippopotamuses with small, elongated heads.