Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Hippopotamidae
Alternative combination: Hippopotamus (Tetraprotodon) antiquus
Synonym: Hippopotamus tiberinus Mazza 1991
Belongs to Hippopotamus according to S. C. Coryndon 1977
See also Desmarest 1822, Falconer and Cautley 1836 and Petronio 1995
Sister taxa: Hippopotamus (Tetraprotodon), Hippopotamus aethiopicus, Hippopotamus afarensis, Hippopotamus amphibius, Hippopotamus behemoth, Hippopotamus coryndonae, Hippopotamus creutzburgi, Hippopotamus gorgops, Hippopotamus kaisensis, Hippopotamus karumensis, Hippopotamus laloumena, Hippopotamus lemerlei, Hippopotamus madagascariensis, Hippopotamus major, Hippopotamus meltensis, Hippopotamus minor, Hippopotamus protamphibius, Hippopotamus sirensis
Type specimens:
- Hippopotamus antiquus: 1
- Hippopotamus tiberinus:
Ecology: amphibious grazer-browser
Distribution:
• Quaternary of France (1 collection), Greece (10), Hungary (2), Italy (2), Portugal (1), Slovenia (1), Spain (3)
Total: 20 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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