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Prohyrax

Mammalia - Hyracoidea - Procaviidae

Taxonomy
Prohyrax was named by Stromer (1926). It is not extant.

It was assigned to Pliohyracinae by Prothero and Schoch (1989); to Procaviidae by Carroll (1988) and Rasmussen et al. (1996); and to Pliohyracidae by Rasmussen and Gutiérrez (2010) and Kalmykov (2013).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1926Prohyrax Stromer
1988Prohyrax Carroll
1989Prohyrax Prothero and Schoch p. 531
1996Prohyrax Rasmussen et al. p. 752
2010Prohyrax Rasmussen and Gutiérrez p. 140
2013Prohyrax Kalmykov p. 827

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Life
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
Therapsida()
RankNameAuthor
infraorderCynodontia()
Mammaliamorpha
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
AfrotheriaStanhope et al. 1998
Paenungulatomorpha
PaenungulataSimpson 1945
orderHyracoideaHuxley 1869
familyProcaviidaeThomas 1892
genusProhyraxStromer 1926

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. †Prohyrax Stromer 1926
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Prohyrax hendeyi Pickford 1994
Prohyrax tertiarius Stromer 1922
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available