Mammalia - Pholidota - Manidae
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: Manoidea according to P. Kondrashov and A. K. Agadjanian 2012
See also Alba et al. 2018, Bonaparte 1850, Botha and Gaudin 2007, Carroll 1988, Cope 1889, Cope 1889, Flower and Lydekker 1891, Gadow 1898, Gray 1821, Nowak 1991 and Rose 1978
Sister taxa: Euromanis, Patriomanidae
Subtaxa: Manina Maninae Manis Phataginus Smutsia Smutsiinae
Ecology: scansorial insectivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Indonesia (2 collections), South Africa (4), Swaziland (1)
• Pliocene of Romania (1), South Africa (2), Uganda (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Pakistan (1), South Africa (1)
• Oligocene of Egypt (2)
Total: 15 collections each including a single occurrence