Heterohyrax Gray 1868 (rock hyrax)

Mammalia - Hyracoidea - Procaviidae

Alternative spellings: Dendrohyrax (Heterohyrax), Procavia (Heterohyrax)

Parent taxon: Procaviidae according to R. E. Barry and J. Shoshani 2000

See also Nowak 1991, Olds and Shoshani 1982, Pickford 2005, Prothero and Schoch 1989, Rasmussen and GutiƩrrez 2010, Rasmussen et al. 1996 and Rasmussen and Simons 1988

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

Subtaxa: Heterohyrax auricampensis Heterohyrax brucei

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Ecology: scansorial herbivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Kenya (3 collections), Tanzania (1), Zambia (2)

• Pliocene of Ethiopia (1)

• Miocene of Kenya (1), Namibia (1)

Total: 9 collections each including a single occurrence

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