Subfamily Saghatheriinae Andrews 1906 (hyrax)

Mammalia - Hyracoidea - Pliohyracidae

Alternative spelling: Saghatheriidae

Full reference: C. W. Andrews. 1906. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Tertiary Vertebrata of Fayum, Egypt. 1-324

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

See also Andrews 1906, Pickford 2004, Pickford 2005, Prothero and Schoch 1989, Rasmussen and Gutiérrez 2010 and Sudre 1979

Sister taxa: Geniohyinae, Hengduanshanhyrax, Kvabebihyrax, Megalohyrax, Meroehyrax, Pachyhyrax, Parapliohyrax, Pliohyracinae, Pliohyrax, Postschizotherium, Selenohyrax, Sogdohyrax

Subtaxa: Bunohyrax Microhyrax Saghatherium Seggeurius Thyrohyrax

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Ecology: scansorial herbivore

Distribution:

• Miocene of Kenya (1 collection)

• Oligocene of Angola (1), Egypt (13), Ethiopia (1), Kenya (3), Libya (2), Oman (2)

• Eocene of Algeria (9)

Total: 32 collections including 45 occurrences

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