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Thyrohyrax pygmaeus
Taxonomy
Megalohyrax pygmaeus was named by Matsumoto (1921). Its type specimen is AMNH 14454, a skull (anterior part of a skull and associated right mandible), and it is a 3D body fossil.
It was recombined as Pachyhyrax pygmaeus by Meyer (1978); it was recombined as Thyrohyrax pygmaeus by Rasmussen and Simons (1988), Rasmussen and Gutiérrez (2010).
It was recombined as Pachyhyrax pygmaeus by Meyer (1978); it was recombined as Thyrohyrax pygmaeus by Rasmussen and Simons (1988), Rasmussen and Gutiérrez (2010).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1921 | Megalohyrax pygmaeus Matsumoto |
| 1922 | Megalohyrax pygmaeus Matsumoto |
| 1926 | Megalohyrax pygmaeus Matsumoto |
| 1978 | Pachyhyrax pygmaeus Meyer |
| 1988 | Thyrohyrax pygmaeus Rasmussen and Simons p. 79 |
| 2010 | Thyrohyrax pygmaeus Rasmussen and Gutiérrez p. 134 |
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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.
†Thyrohyrax pygmaeus Matsumoto 1921
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Lillegraven 1979, Ji et al. 2002, Hendy et al. 2009, Nowak 1999 | |||||