Mammalia - Hyracoidea - Pliohyracidae

Full reference: H. Matsumoto. 1926. Contribution to the knowledge of the fossil Hyracoidea of the Fayum, Egypt, with description of several new species. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 56:253-350

Belongs to Geniohyus according to D. T. Rasmussen and E. L. Simons 1988

See also Matsumoto 1926 and Rasmussen and Gutiérrez 2010

Sister taxa: Geniohyus gigas, Geniohyus magnus, Geniohyus micrognathus, Geniohyus mirus, Geniohyus subgigas

Type specimen: AMNH 13349, a mandible (left ramus with symphysis and p1 to m2)

Ecology: scansorial herbivore

Distribution: found only at Quarry A (Jebel Qatrani Formation) (Oligocene of Egypt)

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