Gigantohyrax Kitching 1965 (hyrax)

Mammalia - Hyracoidea - Procaviidae

Parent taxon: Procaviidae according to D. T. Rasmussen et al. 1996

See also Carroll 1988, Pickford 2005, Prothero and Schoch 1989 and Rasmussen and GutiƩrrez 2010

Sister taxa: Dendrohyrax, Heterohyrax, Procavia, Prohyrax, Hyracina

Subtaxa: Gigantohyrax maguirei

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Ecology: scansorial herbivore

Distribution: found only at Omo - L.369 (Pliocene of Ethiopia)

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