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Namahyrax corvus

Mammalia - Hyracoidea

Taxonomy
Namahyrax corvus was named by Pickford et al. (2008). Its type specimen is BC 14'08, a partial skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Black Crow, which is in a Lutetian karst limestone in Namibia. It is the type species of Namahyrax.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2008Namahyrax corvus Pickford et al. p. 475

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
RankNameAuthor
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—AfrotheriaStanhope et al. 1998
—Paenungulatomorpha
superorderPaenungulata
orderHyracoideaHuxley 1869
genusNamahyrax
speciescorvus

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Namahyrax corvus Pickford et al. 2008
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available