Mammalia - Tubulidentata - Orycteropodidae
Full reference: D. G. MacInnes. 1955. Fossil Tubulidentata from East Africa. Fossil Mammals of Africa 10:1-38
Belongs to Orycteropus according to T. Lehmann 2008
See also Lehmann 2007, MacInnes 1955, Patterson 1975 and Pickford 1975
Sister taxa: Orycteropus abundulafus, Orycteropus afer, Orycteropus browni, Orycteropus chemeldoi, Orycteropus depereti, Orycteropus djourabensis, Orycteropus erikssoni, Orycteropus gaudryi, Orycteropus leptodon, Orycteropus mauritanicus, Orycteropus minutus, Orycteropus pilgrimi, Orycteropus pottieri, Orycteropus sensi
Type specimen: NHM M. 21543, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Rusinga Island, Pleistocene, which is in a Pleistocene terrestrial horizon in Kenya.
Ecology: semifossorial insectivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Kenya (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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