Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Hippopotamidae
Belongs to Hippopotamus according to S. C. Coryndon 1977
See also Boisserie 2005
Sister taxa: Hippopotamus (Tetraprotodon), Hippopotamus aethiopicus, Hippopotamus afarensis, Hippopotamus amphibius, Hippopotamus antiquus, Hippopotamus behemoth, Hippopotamus coryndonae, Hippopotamus creutzburgi, Hippopotamus gorgops, Hippopotamus karumensis, Hippopotamus laloumena, Hippopotamus lemerlei, Hippopotamus madagascariensis, Hippopotamus major, Hippopotamus meltensis, Hippopotamus minor, Hippopotamus protamphibius, Hippopotamus sirensis
Ecology: amphibious grazer-browser
Distribution:
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of the Congo-Kinshasa (1 collection), Uganda (1)
• Pliocene of Kenya (3), Uganda (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Uganda (2)
Total: 8 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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