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Brachyhyrax
Taxonomy
Brachyhyrax was named by Pickford (2004).
It was assigned to Geniohyinae by Rasmussen and Gutierrez (2009); and to Geniohyidae by Pickford (2004), Tsujikawa and Pickford (2006), Rasmussen and Gutiérrez (2010).
It was assigned to Geniohyinae by Rasmussen and Gutierrez (2009); and to Geniohyidae by Pickford (2004), Tsujikawa and Pickford (2006), Rasmussen and Gutiérrez (2010).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2004 | Brachyhyrax Pickford p. 676 |
| 2006 | Brachyhyrax Tsujikawa and Pickford p. 3 |
| 2009 | Brachyhyrax Rasmussen and Gutierrez |
| 2010 | Brachyhyrax Rasmussen and Gutiérrez p. 130 |
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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.
G. †Brachyhyrax Pickford 2004
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†Brachyhyrax aequatorialis Pickford 2004
†Brachyhyrax oligocenus Rasmussen and Gutierrez 2009
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Nowak 1999, Ji et al. 2002, Lillegraven 1979, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Oligocene to the top of the MN 3 or 27.30000 to 16.90000 Ma
Collections (4 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Oligocene | Kenya (Turkana) | B. oligocenus (174662) | |
| Aquitanian | Kenya (Rift Valley) | B. oligocenus (174664) | |
| Burdigalian | Kenya | B. aequatorialis (21726) | |
| MN 3 | Uganda | B. aequatorialis (73864) |