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Titanohyracidae
Taxonomy
Titanohyracidae was named by Matsumoto (1926). It is not extant.
It was reranked as the subfamily Titanohyracinae by Rasmussen and Simons (2000).
It was assigned to Hyracoidea by Matsumoto (1926); to Pliohyracidae by Rasmussen and Simons (2000); to Pseudhippomorpha by Pickford (2004), Tsujikawa and Pickford (2006); and to Hyracoidea by Rasmussen and Gutiérrez (2010).
It was reranked as the subfamily Titanohyracinae by Rasmussen and Simons (2000).
It was assigned to Hyracoidea by Matsumoto (1926); to Pliohyracidae by Rasmussen and Simons (2000); to Pseudhippomorpha by Pickford (2004), Tsujikawa and Pickford (2006); and to Hyracoidea by Rasmussen and Gutiérrez (2010).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1926 | Titanohyracidae Matsumoto |
| 2000 | Titanohyracinae Rasmussen and Simons p. 167 |
| 2004 | Titanohyracidae Pickford p. 678 |
| 2006 | Titanohyracidae Tsujikawa and Pickford p. 9 |
| 2010 | Titanohyracidae Rasmussen and Gutiérrez p. 136 |
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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.
Fm. †Titanohyracidae Matsumoto 1926
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G. †Titanohyrax Matsumoto 1922
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†Titanohyrax andrewsi Matsumoto 1922
†Titanohyrax angustidens Rasmussen and Simons 1988
†Titanohyrax mongereaui Sudre 1979
†Titanohyrax schlosseri Matsumoto 1921
†Titanohyrax tantulus Court and Hartenberger 1992
†Titanohyrax ultimus Matsumoto 1922
Invalid names: Titanohyrax palaeotherioides Schlosser 1911 [nomen nudum]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Nowak 1999, Carroll 1988, Lillegraven 1979, Ji et al. 2002 | |||||
Collections (24 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Ypresian - Lutetian | Algeria (Bechar) | Titanohyrax mongereaui (36615) | |
| Ypresian - Lutetian | Tunisia | Titanohyrax tantalus (87795) | |
| Ypresian - Lutetian | Algeria (Bechar region) | Titanohyrax mongereaui (77013) Titanohyrax tantulus (36612) | |
| Bartonian | Namibia (Sperrgebiet) | Rupestrohyrax palustris (180197) Titanohyracidae indet. (165176) | |
| Late/Upper Eocene - Early/Lower Oligocene | Egypt (Fayum) | Titanohyrax andrewsi, Titanohyrax ultimus (65960) | |
| Early/Lower Oligocene | Egypt | Antilohyrax sp. (187873) | |
| Rupelian | Egypt (Fayum) | Titanohyrax angustidens (12950 12954 12969) Titanohyrax sp. nov. B, Titanohyrax sp. nov. A (60127) | |
| Oligocene | Libya | Megalohyrax palaeotherioides (154222) | |
| Late/Upper Oligocene | Kenya (Turkana) | Afrohyrax n. sp. (174662) | |
| Aquitanian | Kenya (Rift Valley) | Afrohyrax n. sp. (174664) | |
| Early/Lower Miocene | Uganda | Megalohyrax championi (21723) | |
| Early/Lower Miocene | Kenya | Megalohyrax championi (70808) | |
| Burdigalian | Kenya | Megalohyrax championi (38060) | |
| Burdigalian | Kenya (Northern Frontier District) | Pliohyrax championi, Megalohyrax championi (122454) | |
| Burdigalian | Saudi Arabia | Pachyhyrax championi (47069) | |
| Burdigalian | Uganda | Megalohyrax championi (28441 192070) | |
| Langhian | Kenya | Pachyhyrax championi (22069 22070) |