Libytherium Pomel 1892 (placental)

Mammalia - Theriamorpha - Sivatheridae

Parent taxon: Sivatherinae according to C. Arambourg 1979

See also Carroll 1988

Sister taxa: Bramatherium, Hydaspitherium

Subtaxa: Libytherium maurusium

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Ecology: scansorial insectivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Algeria (2 collections), Djibouti (1), Ethiopia (1), Kenya (24), South Africa (3), Tanzania (13)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Ethiopia (1)

• Pliocene of Egypt (2), Ethiopia (5), Kenya (6), Morocco (1), South Africa (2), Tanzania (19), Tunisia (1)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Ethiopia (1), South Africa (3), Uganda (1)

• Miocene to Pleistocene of South Africa (1)

Total: 87 collections including 88 occurrences

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