Afrohyrax Pickford 2004 (hyrax)

Mammalia - Hyracoidea - Titanohyracidae

Full reference: M. Pickford. 2004. Revision of the Early Miocene Hyracoidea (Mammalia) of East Africa. Comptes Rendus Palevol 3:675-690

Parent taxon: Titanohyracidae according to D. T. Rasmussen and M. GutiƩrrez 2010

See also Pickford 2004 and Tsujikawa and Pickford 2006

Sister taxa: Antilohyrax, Rupestrohyrax, Titanohyrax

Subtaxa: Afrohyrax championi

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Ecology: scansorial herbivore

Distribution:

• Miocene of Kenya (6 collections), Saudi Arabia (1), Uganda (3)

• Oligocene of Kenya (1)

Total: 11 collections including 12 occurrences

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