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Heterohyrax (rock hyrax)
Taxonomy
Dendrohyrax (Heterohyrax) was named by Gray (1868). It is extant.
It was Procavia (Heterohyrax) by Brauer (1913); it was reranked as Heterohyrax by Olds and Shoshani (1982), Rasmussen and Simons (1988), Prothero and Schoch (1989), Nowak (1991), Rasmussen et al. (1996), Barry and Shoshani (2000), Pickford (2005), Rasmussen and Gutiérrez (2010).
It was assigned to Dendrohyrax by Gray (1868); to Procavia by Brauer (1913); and to Procaviidae by Olds and Shoshani (1982), Rasmussen and Simons (1988), Prothero and Schoch (1989), Nowak (1991), Rasmussen et al. (1996), Barry and Shoshani (2000), Pickford (2005), Rasmussen and Gutiérrez (2010).
It was Procavia (Heterohyrax) by Brauer (1913); it was reranked as Heterohyrax by Olds and Shoshani (1982), Rasmussen and Simons (1988), Prothero and Schoch (1989), Nowak (1991), Rasmussen et al. (1996), Barry and Shoshani (2000), Pickford (2005), Rasmussen and Gutiérrez (2010).
It was assigned to Dendrohyrax by Gray (1868); to Procavia by Brauer (1913); and to Procaviidae by Olds and Shoshani (1982), Rasmussen and Simons (1988), Prothero and Schoch (1989), Nowak (1991), Rasmussen et al. (1996), Barry and Shoshani (2000), Pickford (2005), Rasmussen and Gutiérrez (2010).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1868 | Dendrohyrax (Heterohyrax) Gray |
| 1913 | Procavia (Heterohyrax) Brauer |
| 1982 | Heterohyrax Olds and Shoshani p. 2 |
| 1988 | Heterohyrax Rasmussen and Simons p. 68 |
| 1989 | Heterohyrax Prothero and Schoch p. 531 |
| 1991 | Heterohyrax Nowak |
| 1996 | Heterohyrax Rasmussen et al. p. 746 |
| 2000 | Heterohyrax Barry and Shoshani p. 1 |
| 2005 | Heterohyrax Pickford p. 160 figs. Figure 15 |
| 2010 | Heterohyrax Rasmussen and Gutiérrez p. 142 |
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G. Heterohyrax Gray 1868 [rock hyrax]
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†Heterohyrax auricampensis Rasmussen et al. 1996
Heterohyrax brucei Gray 1868 [rock hyrax]
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Invalid names: Dendrohyrax (Heterohyrax) blainvillii Gray 1868 [synonym], Procavia pumila Thomas 1901 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Carroll 1988, Lillegraven 1979, Ji et al. 2002, Nowak 1991, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the MN 9 to the top of the Holocene or 11.10000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 9.67 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 9.67 Ma
Collections (9 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Tortonian | Kenya | Heterohyrax sp. (219711) | |
| MN 9 | Namibia | Heterohyrax auricampensis (87787) | |
| Piacenzian | Ethiopia | Heterohyrax brucei (21624) | |
| Pleistocene - Holocene | Zambia | Heterohyrax brucei (21924) | |
| Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | Kenya | Heterohyrax sp. (22272 22276) | |
| Holocene | Tanzania | Heterohyrax brucei (21690) | |
| Holocene | Zambia | Heterohyrax brucei (21894) | |
| Holocene | Kenya | Heterohyrax brucei (21933) |