Microhyrax
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| Genus: | † Microhyrax Sudre, 1979
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| Species: | M. lavocati
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| Microhyrax lavocati Sudre, 1979
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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]
Eutheria
Afrotheria
Hyracoidea
Microhyrax
Saghatheriinae [A]
Proboscidea (elephants)
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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