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Dendrohyrax (tree hyrax)
Taxonomy
Dendrohyrax was named by Gray (1868). It is extant.
It was reranked as Procavia (Dendrohyrax) by Lönnberg (1912).
It was assigned to Procavia by Lönnberg (1912); and to Procaviidae by Olds and Shoshani (1982), Rasmussen and Simons (1988), Prothero and Schoch (1989), Nowak (1991), Rasmussen et al. (1996), Pickford (2005), Rasmussen and Gutiérrez (2010).
It was reranked as Procavia (Dendrohyrax) by Lönnberg (1912).
It was assigned to Procavia by Lönnberg (1912); and to Procaviidae by Olds and Shoshani (1982), Rasmussen and Simons (1988), Prothero and Schoch (1989), Nowak (1991), Rasmussen et al. (1996), Pickford (2005), Rasmussen and Gutiérrez (2010).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1868 | Dendrohyrax Gray p. 48 |
| 1912 | Procavia (Dendrohyrax) Lönnberg p. 115 |
| 1982 | Dendrohyrax Olds and Shoshani p. 2 |
| 1988 | Dendrohyrax Rasmussen and Simons p. 68 |
| 1989 | Dendrohyrax Prothero and Schoch p. 531 |
| 1991 | Dendrohyrax Nowak |
| 1996 | Dendrohyrax Rasmussen et al. p. 746 |
| 2005 | Dendrohyrax Pickford p. 149 |
| 2010 | Dendrohyrax Rasmussen and Gutiérrez p. 142 |
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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. Dendrohyrax Gray 1868 [tree hyrax]
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Dendrohyrax arboreus Smith 1827 [southern tree hyrax]
Dendrohyrax dorsalis Fraser 1853 [western tree hyrax]
†Dendrohyrax samueli Pickford 2005
Procavia (Dendrohyrax) crawshayi Thomas 1900
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Ji et al. 2002, Nowak 1991, Hendy et al. 2009, Lillegraven 1979 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Messinian to the top of the Holocene or 7.24600 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 5.333 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 5.333 Ma
Collections (5 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Messinian | Kenya | Dendrohyrax samueli (110080) | |
| Pleistocene - Holocene | Zambia | Dendrohyrax sp. (21854) | |
| Holocene | Congo-Kinshasa | Dendrohyrax arboreus (22068) Dendrohyrax sp. (22073) | |
| Holocene | Zambia | Dendrohyrax sp. (21895) |