Mammalia - Tubulidentata - Orycteropodidae
Parent taxon: Orycteropodidae according to T. Lehmann 2008
See also Lehman et al. 2006, Lehmann 2007 and Patterson 1975
Sister taxon: Orycteropodina
Subtaxa: Leptorycteropus Myorycteropus Orycteropus
Ecology: ground dwelling insectivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of the Congo-Kinshasa (3 collections), Ethiopia (1), Kenya (9), South Africa (21), Sudan (2), Tanzania (1), Zambia (3)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Ethiopia (1), Kenya (1)
• Pliocene of Chad (1), Ethiopia (1), Kenya (1), South Africa (2), Tanzania (8)
• Turolian of Greece (3), Turkey (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Chad (1), Ethiopia (1), Kenya (2), South Africa (3)
• Miocene of Algeria (2), Chad (1), Greece (6), Italy (1), Kenya (13), Moldova (2), Namibia (2), Pakistan (2), the Russian Federation (1), Turkey (4), Uganda (1), Ukraine (1)
• Oligocene of Kenya (1)
Total: 103 collections including 106 occurrences