†family Pliohyracidae Matsumoto 1926 (hyrax)

Mammalia - Hyracoidea - Pliohyracidae

Full reference: H. Matsumoto. 1926. Contribution to the knowledge of the fossil Hyracoidea of the Fayum, Egypt, with description of several new species. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 56:253-350

Parent taxon: Hyracoidea according to D. T. Rasmussen and E. L. Simons 2000

See also Barry and Shoshani 2000, Carroll 1988, Court and Hartenberger 1992, Court and Mahboubi 1993, Hartenberger et al. 2001, Matsumoto 1926, O'Leary et al. 2006, Olds and Shoshani 1982, Prothero and Schoch 1989, Rasmussen and GutiƩrrez 2010, Rasmussen et al. 1996, Rasmussen and Simons 1988 and Sudre 1979

Sister taxa: Dimaitherium, Namahyrax, Procaviamorpha, Procaviidae, Pseudhippomorpha, Rukwalorax, Titanohyracidae

Subtaxa: Geniohyinae Hengduanshanhyrax Kvabebihyrax Megalohyrax Meroehyrax Pachyhyrax Parapliohyrax Pliohyracinae Pliohyrax Postschizotherium Saghatheriinae Selenohyrax Sogdohyrax

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Ecology: scansorial herbivore

Distribution:

• Pliocene of China (1 collection), Georgia (1)

• Miocene of Afghanistan (1), France (1), Greece (1), Kenya (4), Tajikistan (1), Turkey (2), Uganda (2)

• Oligocene of Angola (1), Egypt (14), Ethiopia (1), Kenya (3), Libya (2), Oman (2), Saudi Arabia (1)

• Eocene of Algeria (9), Egypt (1), Mali (2)

Total: 50 collections including 86 occurrences

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