Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Hippopotamidae
Alternative combination: Palaeopotamus ternani
Full reference: M. Pickford. 1983. On the origins of Hippopotamidae together with descriptions of two new species, a new genus and a new subfamily from the Miocene of Kenya. Géobios 16(2):193-217
Belongs to Kenyapotamus according to J.-R. Boisserie et al. 2010
See also Pickford 1983, Pickford 2007 and Weston and Boisserie 2010
Sister taxon: Kenyapotamus coryndonae
Type specimen: KNM FT 3634. Its type locality is Fort Ternan, which is in a Serravallian terrestrial siltstone in the Upper Koru Series Formation of Kenya.
Ecology: amphibious grazer-browser
Distribution:
• Miocene of Kenya (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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