†Gigantohyrax Kitching 1965 (hyrax)
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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 Gutiérrez 2010
Sister taxa: Dendrohyrax, Heterohyrax, Procavia, Prohyrax, Hyracina
Subtaxa: Gigantohyrax maguirei
Ecology: scansorial herbivore
Distribution: found only at Omo - L.369 (Pliocene of Ethiopia)
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