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Hippopotamus afarensis
Taxonomy
Trilobophorus afarensis was named by Geze (1985). Its type specimen is AL 74-20, a partial skull (calvarium), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Hadar - SH General, which is in a Piacenzian fluvial-lacustrine horizon in the Hadar Formation of Ethiopia. It is the type species of Trilobophorus.
It was recombined as Hippopotamus afarensis by Weston and Boisserie (2010).
It was recombined as Hippopotamus afarensis by Weston and Boisserie (2010).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1985 | Trilobophorus afarensis Geze p. 92 |
| 2005 | Trilobophorus afarensis Boisserie p. 4 figs. Table 1 |
| 2010 | Hippopotamus afarensis Weston and Boisserie p. 862 |
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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.
†Hippopotamus afarensis Geze 1985
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: g = genus, f = family, o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Nowak 1991, Nowak 1999, Lillegraven 1979, Gingerich 2003 | |||||
Age range: Piacenzian or 3.60000 to 2.58800 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Piacenzian | Ethiopia | Trilobophorus afarensis (type locality: 21783 21785) |