Bunohyrax Schlosser 1910 (hyrax)

Mammalia - Hyracoidea - Pliohyracidae

Parent taxon: Saghatheriinae according to N. Court and M. Mahboubi 1993

See also Carroll 1988, Matsumoto 1926, Prothero and Schoch 1989, Rasmussen and GutiƩrrez 2010 and Rasmussen and Simons 1988

Sister taxa: Microhyrax, Saghatherium, Seggeurius, Thyrohyrax

Subtaxa: Bunohyrax affinis Bunohyrax fajumensis Bunohyrax major Bunohyrax matsumatoi Bunohyrax matusmotoi

View classification

Ecology: scansorial herbivore

Distribution:

• Oligocene of Angola (1 collection), Egypt (2), Ethiopia (1)

• Eocene of Algeria (2)

Total: 6 collections including 8 occurrences

Show more details


Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.


Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.