Mammalia - Hyracoidea - Procaviidae
Synonym: Hyracidae Gray 1821
Parent taxon: Hyracoidea according to D. T. Rasmussen et al. 1996
See also Barry and Shoshani 2000, Bonaparte 1850, Carroll 1988, Cope 1889, Flower 1883, Flower and Lydekker 1891, Gray 1821, McKenna and Bell 1997, Nowak 1991, Olds and Shoshani 1982, Pickford 2005, Prothero and Schoch 1989, Rasmussen and Gutiérrez 2010 and Rasmussen and Simons 1988
Sister taxa: Dimaitherium, Namahyrax, Pliohyracidae, Procaviamorpha, Pseudhippomorpha, Rukwalorax, Titanohyracidae
Subtaxa: Dendrohyrax Gigantohyrax Heterohyrax Hyracina Procavia Prohyrax
Ecology: scansorial herbivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of the Congo-Kinshasa (3 collections), Israel (6), Kenya (11), South Africa (47), Swaziland (2), Tanzania (1), Zambia (4)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of South Africa (5)
• Pliocene of Ethiopia (2), South Africa (3)
• Miocene to Pliocene of South Africa (1)
• Miocene of Greece (1), Kenya (4), Namibia (3)
Total: 93 collections including 114 occurrences