Orycteropus crassidens MacInnes 1955 (aardvark)

Mammalia - Tubulidentata - Orycteropodidae

Full reference: D. G. MacInnes. 1955. Fossil Tubulidentata from East Africa. Fossil Mammals of Africa 10:1-38

Belongs to Orycteropus according to T. Lehmann 2008

See also Lehmann 2007, MacInnes 1955, Patterson 1975 and Pickford 1975

Sister taxa: Orycteropus abundulafus, Orycteropus afer, Orycteropus browni, Orycteropus chemeldoi, Orycteropus depereti, Orycteropus djourabensis, Orycteropus erikssoni, Orycteropus gaudryi, Orycteropus leptodon, Orycteropus mauritanicus, Orycteropus minutus, Orycteropus pilgrimi, Orycteropus pottieri, Orycteropus sensi

Type specimen: NHM M. 21543, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Rusinga Island, Pleistocene, which is in a Pleistocene terrestrial horizon in Kenya.

Ecology: semifossorial insectivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Kenya (2 collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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