Miosengi butleri Grossman and Holroyd 2009 (sengi)

Mammalia - Macroscelidea - Macroscelididae

Full reference: A. Grossman and P. A. Holroyd. 2009. Miosengi butleri, gen. et sp. nov., (Macroscelidea) from the Kalodirr Member, Lothidok Formation, early Miocene of Kenya. Journal of Paleontology 29(3):957-960

Belongs to Miosengi according to A. Grossman and P. A. Holroyd 2009

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: KNM-WK 17050, a mandible (right mandible fragment with m2 and the m3 alveolus). Its type locality is Kalodirr, west of Lake Turkana, which is in a Burdigalian channel horizon in the Lothidok Formation of Kenya.

Ecology: ground dwelling insectivore

Distribution: found only at Kalodirr, west of Lake Turkana

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