Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Hippopotamidae
Alternative combination: Hexaprotodon karumensis
Full reference: S. C. Coryndon. 1977. The taxonomy and nomenclature of the Hippopotamidae (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) and a description of two new fossil species II. A description of two new species of Hexaprotodon. Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen 80(2):72-88
Belongs to Hippopotamus according to Coryndon 1977
See also Coryndon 1977
Sister taxa: Hippopotamus (Tetraprotodon), Hippopotamus aethiopicus, Hippopotamus afarensis, Hippopotamus amphibius, Hippopotamus antiquus, Hippopotamus behemoth, Hippopotamus coryndonae, Hippopotamus creutzburgi, Hippopotamus gorgops, Hippopotamus kaisensis, Hippopotamus laloumena, Hippopotamus lemerlei, Hippopotamus madagascariensis, Hippopotamus major, Hippopotamus meltensis, Hippopotamus minor, Hippopotamus protamphibius, Hippopotamus sirensis
Type specimen: KNM-ER 798, a partial skull
Ecology: amphibious grazer-browser
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Eritrea (1 collection), Kenya (38)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Kenya (6)
Total: 45 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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