page_title: Arsinoitherium
section_title: Distribution
hierarchical_section_title: Arsinoitherium / Distribution
caption_attribution_description: Arsinoitherium in Teylers Museum.
context_page_description: Arsinoitherium is an extinct genus of paenungulate mammals belonging to the extinct order Embrithopoda. It is related to elephants, sirenians, hyraxes and the extinct desmostylians. Arsinoitheres were superficially rhinoceros-like herbivores that lived during the late Eocene and the early Oligocene of northern Africa from 36 to 30 million years ago, in areas of tropical rainforest and at the margin of mangrove swamps. A species described in 2004, A. giganteum, lived in Ethiopia about 27 million years ago.
context_section_description: Fossils of Arsinoitherium have been found in:
  Eocene
  Aydim Formation, Oman
  Idam Unit Formation, Libya
  Djebel Chambi, Tunisia
  Oligocene
  Malembe, Angola
  Jebel Qatrani Formation, Egypt
  Chilga, Ethiopia
  Erageleit Formation, Kenya
  Ashawq Formation, Oman
  Shumaysi Formation, Saudi Arabia
caption: Skull cast from the side
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