†Geniohyus Andrews 1904 (hyrax)
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Mammalia - Hyracoidea - Pliohyracidae
Parent taxon: Geniohyinae according to N. Court and M. Mahboubi 1993
See also Carroll 1988, Jaegar et al. 1985, Matsumoto 1926, Prothero and Schoch 1989, Rasmussen and Gutiérrez 2010 and Rasmussen and Simons 1988
Sister taxon: Brachyhyrax
Subtaxa: Geniohyus diphycus Geniohyus gigas Geniohyus magnus Geniohyus micrognathus Geniohyus mirus Geniohyus subgigas
Ecology: scansorial herbivore
Distribution:
• Oligocene of Egypt (4 collections), Saudi Arabia (1)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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