†Pachyhyrax Schlosser 1910 (hyrax)
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Mammalia - Hyracoidea - Pliohyracidae
Parent taxon: Pliohyracidae according to D. T. Rasmussen and E. L. Simons 1988
See also Carroll 1988, Matsumoto 1926, Prothero and Schoch 1989 and Rasmussen and Gutiérrez 2010
Sister taxa: Geniohyinae, Hengduanshanhyrax, Kvabebihyrax, Megalohyrax, Meroehyrax, Parapliohyrax, Pliohyracinae, Pliohyrax, Postschizotherium, Saghatheriinae, Selenohyrax, Sogdohyrax
Subtaxa: Pachyhyrax crassidentatus
Ecology: scansorial herbivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Kenya (1 collection)
• Oligocene of Egypt (3), Ethiopia (1)
Total: 5 collections including 6 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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