Microhyrax
| Microhyrax Temporal range: Eocene | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Hyracoidea |
| Family: | †Pliohyracidae |
| Subfamily: | †Saghatheriinae |
| Genus: | †Microhyrax Sudre, 1979 |
| Species: | †M. lavocati |
| Binomial name | |
| †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
[edit]A phylogeny of hyracoids known from the early Eocene through the middle Oligocene epoch.[2]
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References
[edit]- ↑ "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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