†Dendrohyrax samueli Pickford 2005 (tree hyrax)
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Mammalia - Hyracoidea - Procaviidae
Full reference: M. Pickford. 2005. Fossil hyraxes (Hyracoidea: Mammalia) from the Late Miocene and Plio-Pleistocene of Africa, and the phylogeny of the Procaviidae. Palaeontologia Africana 41:141-161
Belongs to Dendrohyrax according to M. Pickford 2005
Sister taxa: Dendrohyrax arboreus, Dendrohyrax dorsalis, Procavia (Dendrohyrax) crawshayi
Type specimen: Bar 961'01, a partial skull (palate with much of the dentition). Its type locality is Aragai - Tugen Hills, which is in a Messinian fluvial siltstone/sandstone in the Lukeino Formation of Kenya.
Ecology: scansorial herbivore
Distribution: found only at Aragai - Tugen Hills
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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