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Procavia (Cape hyrax)

Mammalia - Hyracoidea - Procaviidae

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1780Procavia Storr p. 40
1783Hyrax Herman p. 115
1825Hyrax Gray p. 342
1848Hyrax Owen p. 139
1868Euhyrax Gray p. 46
1982Procavia Olds and Shoshani p. 1
1988Procavia Carroll
1988Procavia Rasmussen and Simons p. 68
1989Procavia Prothero and Schoch p. 531
1991Procavia Nowak
1996Procavia Rasmussen et al. p. 746
2005Procavia Pickford p. 152
2010Procavia Rasmussen and Gutiérrez p. 142

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Life
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
Therapsida()
RankNameAuthor
infraorderCynodontia()
Mammaliamorpha
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
AfrotheriaStanhope et al. 1998
Paenungulatomorpha
PaenungulataSimpson 1945
orderHyracoideaHuxley 1869
familyProcaviidaeThomas 1892
genusProcaviaStorr 1780

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. Procavia Storr 1780 [Cape hyrax]
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Procavia antiqua Broom 1934
Procavia capensis Pallas 1766 [Cape hyrax]
Procavia obermeyerae Broom 1937
Procavia pliocenica Pickford 2005
Procavia robertsi Broom and Schepers 1946
Invalid names: Euhyrax Gray 1868 [synonym], Hyrax Herman 1783 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available