†Heterohyrax auricampensis Rasmussen et al. 1996 (rock hyrax)
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Mammalia - Hyracoidea - Procaviidae
Full reference: D. T. Rasmussen, M. Pickford, P. Mein, B. Senut, and G. C. Conroy. 1996. Earliest known procaviid hyracoid from the late Miocene of Namibia. Journal of Mammalogy 77(3):745-754
Belongs to Heterohyrax according to D. T. Rasmussen et al. 1996
See also Barry and Shoshani 2000 and Rasmussen and Gutiérrez 2010
Sister taxon: Heterohyrax brucei
Type specimen: BER I 31'91a, a mandible (right mandible with p3-m2). Its type locality is Berk Aukas Site I, which is in a MN 9 fissure fill breccia in Namibia.
Ecology: scansorial herbivore
Distribution: found only at Berk Aukas Site I
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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