†family Titanohyracidae Matsumoto 1926 (hyrax)

Mammalia - Hyracoidea - Titanohyracidae

Alternative spelling: Titanohyracinae

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

Parent taxon: Hyracoidea according to D. T. Rasmussen and M. GutiƩrrez 2010

See also Matsumoto 1926, Pickford 2004, Rasmussen and Simons 2000 and Tsujikawa and Pickford 2006

Sister taxa: Dimaitherium, Namahyrax, Pliohyracidae, Procaviamorpha, Procaviidae, Pseudhippomorpha, Rukwalorax

Subtaxa: Afrohyrax Antilohyrax Rupestrohyrax Titanohyrax

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Ecology: scansorial herbivore

Distribution:

• Miocene of Kenya (6 collections), Saudi Arabia (1), Uganda (3)

• Oligocene of Egypt (7), Kenya (1), Libya (1)

• Eocene of Algeria (3), Namibia (2), Tunisia (1)

Total: 25 collections including 27 occurrences

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