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Kenyapotamus ternani

Mammalia - Hippopotamidae

Taxonomy
Kenyapotamus ternani was named by Pickford (1983). It is not extant. Its type specimen is KNM FT 3634. Its type locality is Fort Ternan, which is in a Serravallian terrestrial siltstone in the Upper Koru Series Formation of Kenya. It is the type species of Palaeopotamus.

It was recombined as Palaeopotamus ternani by Pickford (2007).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1983Kenyapotamus ternani Pickford p. 202 figs. Plate 1, Fig. 3
2007Palaeopotamus ternani Pickford p. 99
2010Kenyapotamus ternani Boisserie et al. p. 345
2010Kenyapotamus ternani Weston and Boisserie p. 853

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
Mammaliamorpha
Mammaliaformes
RankNameAuthor
classMammalia
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
Euungulata
Artiodactylamorpha
Artiodactyla()
Whippomorpha
superfamilyHippopotamoideaGray 1821
familyHippopotamidae
subfamilyKenyapotaminae
genusKenyapotamus
speciesternani

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.

Kenyapotamus ternani Pickford 1983
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available