Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Hippopotamidae
Belongs to Hippopotamus according to E. Weston and J.-R. Boisserie 2010
See also Boisserie 2005, Coryndon 1977, Faure 1986 and Petronio 1995
Sister taxa: Hippopotamus (Tetraprotodon), Hippopotamus aethiopicus, Hippopotamus afarensis, Hippopotamus amphibius, Hippopotamus antiquus, Hippopotamus behemoth, Hippopotamus coryndonae, Hippopotamus creutzburgi, Hippopotamus kaisensis, Hippopotamus karumensis, Hippopotamus laloumena, Hippopotamus lemerlei, Hippopotamus madagascariensis, Hippopotamus major, Hippopotamus meltensis, Hippopotamus minor, Hippopotamus protamphibius, Hippopotamus sirensis
Ecology: amphibious grazer-browser
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Djibouti (2 collections), Eritrea (1), Ethiopia (1), Israel (1), Kenya (37), Tanzania (18)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of the Congo-Kinshasa (1), Djibouti (1), Kenya (3), Uganda (1)
Total: 66 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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