Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Hippopotamidae

Full reference: J.-R. Boisserie, A. Likius, P. Vignaud and M. Brunet. 2005. A New Late Miocene Hippopotamid from Toros-Menalla, Chad. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25(3):665-673

Belongs to Hexaprotodon according to J.-R. Boisserie et al. 2005

See also Weston and Boisserie 2010

Sister taxa: Hexaprotodon aethiopicus, Hexaprotodon bruneti, Hexaprotodon coryndoni, Hexaprotodon crusafonti, Hexaprotodon dissimilis, Hexaprotodon dulu, Hexaprotodon imaguncula, Hexaprotodon iravticus, Hexaprotodon mingoz, Hexaprotodon namadicus, Hexaprotodon palaeindicus, Hexaprotodon pantanellii, Hexaprotodon primaevus, Hexaprotodon sahabiensis, Hexaprotodon shungurensis, Hexaprotodon siculus, Hexaprotodon sivalensis, Hippopotamus (Hexaprotodon) hipponensis

Type specimen: TM337-01-001, a partial skull. Its type locality is Toros-Menalla (TM 337), which is in a Messinian lacustrine sandstone in Chad.

Ecology: amphibious grazer-browser

Distribution: found only at Toros-Menalla (TM 337)

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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.