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Geniohyinae
Taxonomy
Geniohyidae was named by Matsumoto (1926). It is not extant.
It was reranked as the subfamily Geniohyinae by Prothero and Schoch (1989), Court and Mahboubi (1993).
It was assigned to Hyracoidea by Matsumoto (1926); to Pliohyracidae by Prothero and Schoch (1989), Court and Mahboubi (1993); to Pseudhippomorpha by Pickford (2004), Tsujikawa and Pickford (2006); and to Hyracoidea by Rasmussen and Gutiérrez (2010).
It was reranked as the subfamily Geniohyinae by Prothero and Schoch (1989), Court and Mahboubi (1993).
It was assigned to Hyracoidea by Matsumoto (1926); to Pliohyracidae by Prothero and Schoch (1989), Court and Mahboubi (1993); 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 | Geniohyidae Matsumoto |
| 1989 | Geniohyinae Prothero and Schoch p. 530 |
| 1993 | Geniohyinae Court and Mahboubi p. 892 |
| 2004 | Geniohyidae Pickford p. 676 |
| 2006 | Geniohyidae Tsujikawa and Pickford p. 3 |
| 2010 | Geniohyidae Rasmussen and Gutiérrez p. 126 |
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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.
Subfm. †Geniohyinae Matsumoto 1926
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G. †Brachyhyrax Pickford 2004
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†Brachyhyrax aequatorialis Pickford 2004
†Brachyhyrax oligocenus Rasmussen and Gutierrez 2009
G. †Geniohyus Andrews 1904
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†Geniohyus diphycus Matsumoto 1926
†Geniohyus gigas Matsumoto 1926
†Geniohyus magnus Andrews 1904
†Geniohyus micrognathus Schlosser 1911
†Geniohyus mirus Andrews 1904
†Geniohyus subgigas Matsumoto 1926
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Ji et al. 2002, Lillegraven 1979, Carroll 1988, Nowak 1999, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Collections (9 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Eocene - Early/Lower Oligocene | Egypt (Fayum) | Geniohyus mirus (65960) | |
| Rupelian | Egypt (Fayum) | Geniohyus diphycus (175420) Geniohyus magnus (12950) Geniohyus sp. (60127) | |
| Oligocene | Saudi Arabia (Al Hijaz) | Geniohyus sp. (97221) | |
| Late/Upper Oligocene | Kenya (Turkana) | Brachyhyrax oligocenus (174662) | |
| Aquitanian | Kenya (Rift Valley) | Brachyhyrax oligocenus (174664) | |
| Burdigalian | Kenya | Brachyhyrax aequatorialis (21726) | |
| MN 3 | Uganda | Brachyhyrax aequatorialis (73864) |