Mammalia - Tubulidentata - Orycteropodidae
Parent taxon: Orycteropodinae according to T. Lehmann 2008
See also Carroll 1988, Gray 1825, Lehman et al. 2006, Lehmann 2007, Lehmann et al. 2004, Lehmann et al. 2005, MacInnes 1955, Patterson 1975, Pickford 1975, Pickford 2003, Pickford 2005 and Theodorou et al. 2003
Sister taxa: Leptorycteropus, Myorycteropus
Subtaxa: Orycteropus abundulafus Orycteropus afer Orycteropus browni Orycteropus chemeldoi Orycteropus crassidens Orycteropus depereti Orycteropus djourabensis Orycteropus erikssoni Orycteropus gaudryi Orycteropus leptodon Orycteropus mauritanicus Orycteropus minutus Orycteropus pilgrimi Orycteropus pottieri Orycteropus sensi
Ecology: semifossorial insectivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of the Congo-Kinshasa (3 collections), Ethiopia (1), Kenya (9), South Africa (16), Sudan (2), Tanzania (1), Zambia (3)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Ethiopia (1), Kenya (1)
• Pliocene of Chad (1), Ethiopia (1), Kenya (1), South Africa (2), Tanzania (8)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Chad (1), Ethiopia (1), Kenya (1), South Africa (3)
• Miocene of Algeria (2), Chad (1), Greece (9), Italy (1), Kenya (11), Moldova (2), Namibia (2), Pakistan (2), the Russian Federation (1), Turkey (5), Uganda (1), Ukraine (1)
• Oligocene of Kenya (1)
Total: 95 collections including 96 occurrences
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