Dendrohyrax Gray 1868 (tree hyrax)
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Mammalia - Hyracoidea - Procaviidae
Alternative spelling: Procavia (Dendrohyrax)
Parent taxon: Procaviidae according to D. T. Rasmussen et al. 1996
See also Lönnberg 1912, Nowak 1991, Olds and Shoshani 1982, Pickford 2005, Prothero and Schoch 1989, Rasmussen and Gutiérrez 2010 and Rasmussen and Simons 1988
Sister taxa: Gigantohyrax, Heterohyrax, Procavia, Prohyrax, Hyracina
Subtaxa: Dendrohyrax arboreus Dendrohyrax dorsalis Dendrohyrax samueli Procavia (Dendrohyrax) crawshayi
Ecology: scansorial herbivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of the Congo-Kinshasa (2 collections), Zambia (2)
• Miocene of Kenya (1)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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