Mammalia - Tubulidentata - Orycteropodidae
Full reference: M. Pickford. 1975. New fossil Orycteropodidae (Mammalia, Tubulidentata) from East Africa. Orycteropus minutus sp. nov. and Orycteropus chemeldoi sp. nov. Netherlands Journal of Zoology 25(1):57-88
Belongs to Orycteropus according to Pickford 1975
See also Lehmann 2007
Sister taxa: Orycteropus abundulafus, Orycteropus afer, Orycteropus browni, Orycteropus chemeldoi, Orycteropus crassidens, Orycteropus depereti, Orycteropus djourabensis, Orycteropus erikssoni, Orycteropus gaudryi, Orycteropus leptodon, Orycteropus mauritanicus, Orycteropus pilgrimi, Orycteropus pottieri, Orycteropus sensi
Type specimen: KNM SO 1231, a set of limb elements (right metacarpals II and III). Its type locality is Songhor (Main Site), which is in a Burdigalian terrestrial horizon in Kenya.
Ecology: semifossorial insectivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Kenya (1 collection), Namibia (2)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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