Microhyrax
Microhyrax Temporal range: Eocene 55.8–40.4 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N | |
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Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Hyracoidea |
Family: | †Pliohyracidae |
Subfamily: | †Saghatheriinae |
Genus: | †Microhyrax Sudre, 1979 |
Species: | M. lavocati |
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Microhyrax lavocati Sudre, 1979 |
Microhyrax was a prehistoric genus of herbivorous hyrax-grouped mammal. It lived during the Eocene period from 55.8 to 40.4 million years ago in modern-day Algeria.[1]
Cladogram
A phylogeny of hyracoids known from the early Eocene through the middle Oligocene epoch.[2]
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References
- ^ "Fossilworks: Microhyrax". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
- ^ Gheerbrant, E.; Donming, D.; Tassy, P. (2005). "Paenungulata (Sirenia, Proboscidea, Hyracoidea, and Relatives)". In Rose, Kenneth D.; Archibald, J. David (eds.). The Rise of Placental Mammals: Origins and relationships of the major extant clades. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 84–105. ISBN 978-0801880223.
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- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Infraclass: Placentalia
- Superorder: Afrotheria
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