Mammalia - Tubulidentata - Orycteropodidae
Alternative spelling: Orycteropidae
Full reference: J. E. Gray. 1821. On the natural arrangement of vertebrose animals. The London Medical Repository Monthly Journal and Review 15:296-310
Parent taxon: Tubulidentata according to M. Pickford 2005
See also Ameghino 1889, Asher and Helgen 2010, Bonaparte 1850, Carroll 1988, Cope 1889, Cope 1889, Flower 1883, Flower and Lydekker 1891, Gadow 1898, Gray 1821, Lehman et al. 2006, Lehmann 2007, Lehmann 2008, Lehmann et al. 2004, Lehmann et al. 2005, MacInnes 1955, Nowak 1991, Patterson 1975, Pickford 1975, Pickford 2003 and Theodorou et al. 2003
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Orycteropodina Orycteropodinae
Ecology: ground dwelling insectivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of the Congo-Kinshasa (3 collections), Ethiopia (1), Kenya (9), South Africa (16), Sudan (2), Tanzania (1), Zambia (3)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Ethiopia (1), Kenya (1)
• Pliocene of Chad (1), Ethiopia (1), Kenya (1), South Africa (2), Tanzania (8)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Chad (1), Ethiopia (1), Kenya (2), South Africa (3)
• Miocene of Algeria (2), Chad (1), Greece (9), Italy (1), Kenya (13), Moldova (2), Namibia (2), Pakistan (2), the Russian Federation (1), Turkey (5), Uganda (1), Ukraine (1)
• Oligocene of Kenya (1)
Total: 98 collections including 102 occurrences