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Archaeopotamus
Taxonomy
Archaeopotamus was named by Boisserie (2005). It is not extant.
It was assigned to Hippopotamidae by Boisserie (2005); and to Hippopotaminae by Boisserie et al. (2005), Boisserie et al. (2010), Orliac et al. (2010), Weston and Boisserie (2010) and Boisserie et al. (2011).
It was assigned to Hippopotamidae by Boisserie (2005); and to Hippopotaminae by Boisserie et al. (2005), Boisserie et al. (2010), Orliac et al. (2010), Weston and Boisserie (2010) and Boisserie et al. (2011).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2005 | Archaeopotamus Boisserie p. 16 |
| 2005 | Archaeopotamus Boisserie et al. |
| 2010 | Archaeopotamus Boisserie et al. p. 328 |
| 2010 | Archaeopotamus Orliac et al. p. 11873 figs. Fig. 2 |
| 2010 | Archaeopotamus Weston and Boisserie p. 854 |
| 2011 | Archaeopotamus Boisserie et al. p. 620 figs. Table 1 |
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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. †Archaeopotamus Boisserie 2005
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†Archaeopotamus harvardi Coryndon 1977
†Archaeopotamus lothagamensis Weston 2000
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Lillegraven 1979, Nowak 1991, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Nowak 1999 | |||||
Age range: base of the Messinian to the top of the Early/Lower Pliocene or 7.24600 to 3.60000 Ma
Collections (22 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Tortonian - Messinian | Kenya | Hexaprotodon harvardi (22243) Hexaprotodon lothagamensis, Hexaprotodon harvardi (22241) | |
| Tortonian - Zanclean | Ethiopia | Hexaprotodon harvardi (22139) | |
| Tortonian - Zanclean | Kenya | Hexaprotodon harvardi (22236) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | United Arab Emirates (Abu Dhabi) | Hexaprotodon harvardi (28245) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene - Early/Lower Pliocene | Chad | Hexaprotodon harvardi (24181) | |
| Messinian - Zanclean | Kenya | Hexaprotodon lothagamensis, Hexaprotodon harvardi (22242) | |
| Messinian - Zanclean | Tanzania | Hexaprotodon harvardi (22042 22058 22062 22063) | |
| Messinian - Piacenzian | Kenya | Hexaprotodon harvardi, Hexaprotodon lothagamensis (22237) | |
| Early/Lower Pliocene | Tanzania | Hexaprotodon harvardi (22043 22044 22045 22050 22052 22054) | |
| Pliocene | Tanzania | Hexaprotodon harvardi (22476 22477 22480) | |
| Zanclean - Piacenzian | Kenya | Hexaprotodon harvardi (22235) |