Anancus arvernensis Anancus arvernensis Anancus arvernensis
Anancus arvernensis
Anancus arvernensis
Anancus arvernensis

Anancus arvernensis

Anancus (Anancus Aymard, 1855)

 

Order: Proboscidea

Family: Gomphotheriidae

Dimensions: length - 3,5 m, height - 3- 3,5 m, tusks - 3 m, weight - 5000 kg

Temporal range: lived during the Turolian age of the late Miocene until the genus' extinction during the early Pleistocene (Africa, Europe, and Asia)

A typical representative: Anancus arvernensis Croizet & Jobert 1928

 

Anancus is an extinct genus of gomphothere endemic to Africa, Europe, and Asia, that lived during the Turolian age of the late Miocene until the genus' extinction during the early Pleistocene, roughly from 3-1.5 million years ago. Anancus was named by Aymard in 1855. This animal's species type is Anancus arvernensis (Croizet & Jobert 1928). Anancus was assigned to the suborder Elephantiformes by Jeheskel Shoshani, Ph.D. and P. Tassy in 1996. It was then assigned to the family Gomphotheriidae by Carroll in 1988. It was assigned to the family Elephantidae by McKenna and Bell in 1997 and by Lambert and Shoshani in 1998. Anancus was then assigned to the superfamily of Elephantoidea by Kalb and Froelich in 1995 and Shoshani and Tassy in 2005. In 2009, L. Hautier, H. T. Mackaye, F. Lihoreau, P. Tassy, P. Vignaud and M. Brunet assigned it collectively to the subfamily Anancinae.
Anancus stood around 3 metres tall, with a weight up to 5-6 tons, and closely resembled a modern elephant. It had two tusks, whereas most other gomphotheres had four. Aside from its somewhat shorter legs, Anancus was also different from modern elephants in that its tusks were much longer, up to 3 metres  in length. The tusks were possibly defense weapons not unlike elephants of today. The molars were not composed of lamellae like those of true elephants, but had cusps, like tapir and pig molars; Anancus appears to have lived in forests, eating from trees and shrubs and digging out tubers and roots in the forest floor, and it died out when these forests gave way to grasslands.

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Anancus (Anancus Aymard, 1855)

 

Order: Proboscidea

Family: Gomphotheriidae

Dimensions: length - 3,5 m, height - 3- 3,5 m, tusks - 3 m, weight - 5000 kg

Temporal range: lived during the Turolian age of the late Miocene until the genus' extinction during the early Pleistocene (Africa, Europe, and Asia)

A typical representative: Anancus arvernensis Croizet & Jobert 1928

 

Anancus is an extinct genus of gomphothere endemic to Africa, Europe, and Asia, that lived during the Turolian age of the late Miocene until the genus' extinction during the early Pleistocene, roughly from 3-1.5 million years ago. Anancus was named by Aymard in 1855. This animal's species type is Anancus arvernensis (Croizet & Jobert 1928). Anancus was assigned to the suborder Elephantiformes by Jeheskel Shoshani, Ph.D. and P. Tassy in 1996. It was then assigned to the family Gomphotheriidae by Carroll in 1988. It was assigned to the family Elephantidae by McKenna and Bell in 1997 and by Lambert and Shoshani in 1998. Anancus was then assigned to the superfamily of Elephantoidea by Kalb and Froelich in 1995 and Shoshani and Tassy in 2005. In 2009, L. Hautier, H. T. Mackaye, F. Lihoreau, P. Tassy, P. Vignaud and M. Brunet assigned it collectively to the subfamily Anancinae.
Anancus stood around 3 metres tall, with a weight up to 5-6 tons, and closely resembled a modern elephant. It had two tusks, whereas most other gomphotheres had four. Aside from its somewhat shorter legs, Anancus was also different from modern elephants in that its tusks were much longer, up to 3 metres  in length. The tusks were possibly defense weapons not unlike elephants of today. The molars were not composed of lamellae like those of true elephants, but had cusps, like tapir and pig molars; Anancus appears to have lived in forests, eating from trees and shrubs and digging out tubers and roots in the forest floor, and it died out when these forests gave way to grasslands.

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Відгуки (12):
Митрич
04.09.2020
Ром, до появления позднейших гомфотериид -ананкусов, почти у всех ранних гомфотериев было по 4 коротких бивня в обеих челюстях. Почему почти? Потому что среди ранних гомфотериев (или не гомфотериев?) был один относительно мелкий ( с лошадь наверное ростом?) род (?) - CHOEROLOPHODON, с относительно удлиненными изогнутыми вверх бивнями и относительно длинной челюстью с коротюсенькими бивнями и относительно гибким и длинным хоботом. Жил он в Старом свете от Африки до юго-восточной Европы и по регионам юго-западной Азии, Индии до Южного Китая. Этот зверь очень сильно походил на более поздних гребнезубых маммутид, но жил в конце миоцена от 15-10 до 5 млн. лет назад... Вот бы ты его изваял...
Митрич
12.04.2020
...в Европе и Азии ананкусы, скорее всего не дожили до первых Прометеев-эректусов, владеющих огнем, а вот в Африке, наверное, могли с такой напастью столкнуться?.. Или нет?..
Митрич
30.03.2020
РОм, дай угадаю задумку Мастера по коллажу с пожаром саванны... Вряд ли в миоцен-плиоцене костер разожгли гоминидные приматы... Значит после сухого периода ( мжет в конце лета?), вдарила молния и запалила то ли испанскую, то ли украинскую саванну? А может быть и казахстанскую?.. Саванна загорелась - хоботы в панике... Красиво, конечно, животные БЕСПОДОБНЫЕ, но Ром, я бы вместо ПОЖАРА панического кустарничек бы поместил...
Sergio
11.10.2019
¿Puedes dejarlo con fondo blanco?
Митрич
08.12.2018
For Raaf: "If this Anancus is like a modern Elephas, then I am Roma Pope!" Roman Anankus is depicted extremely accurately in size - it could not be as long as a sausage!