Palæont. [ad. mod.L. anthracothērium (also used), f. as prec. + Gr. θηρίον beast.] A pachyderm quadruped whose remains occur in Tertiary lignites and coal.
1833. Lyell, Princ. Geol., III. 222. Many entire jaws and other bones of an extinct mammifer, called by Cuvier Anthracotherium, have been found in the coal-beds.
1857. Page, Adv. Text-bk. Geol. (1876), 373. The anthracothere stands intermediate between the river-hog and hippopotamus.
