anthracotherium

[Gr. ἄνθραξ (αηthrax), gen it. ἄνθρακος ( anthrakos ) = coal or charcoal; and θηρίον ( therion ) = a beast, especially one of the kinds hunted; properly dim in. from θήρ ( ther ) = a wild beast, a beast of prey.] A fo il mammal of the Pachydermatous order, named from the fact that it was first found in tertiary lignite or brown coal. 8. "The Dinotherium and Narrow-toothed Mastodon, for example, diminish the distance between the Lophiodon and Elephant; the Anthracotherium and Hippo physis that between Chœropotamus and Hippopotamus." -Owen : British Fo il Mammals and Birds (1846), pp. xxi., xxii. ăn-thrặc-o-xěn'-īte, ăn-thrăc-o-xē'ne, [In Ger. anthracozen; Gr. ἄνθραξ (anthrax) = coal; ξένος ( zenos ) = foreign, a foreigner; suff. -ite Gr. ιτης ( ites ) = of the nature of.] A mineral cla ed by Dana in his sixth, a yet unnamed group of Oxygenated Hydrocarbons. It is obtained as a black powder from a resinlike mineral between layers of coal in Bohemia. Its composition is, carbon 75 274, hydrogen 6-187, and oxygen 18:539. It is insoluble in ether.