Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Hippopotamidae
Synonym: Palaeopotamus Pickford 2007
Full reference: M. Pickford. 1983. On the origins of Hippopotamidae together with descriptions of two new species, a new genus and a new subfamily from the Miocene of Kenya. Géobios 16(2):193-217
Parent taxon: Kenyapotaminae according to M. Orliac et al. 2010
See also Boisserie et al. 2011, Boisserie et al. 2005, Boisserie et al. 2010, McKenna and Bell 1997, Pickford 1983, Pickford 2007 and Weston and Boisserie 2010
Sister taxa: Kulutherium, Morotochoerus
Subtaxa: Kenyapotamus coryndonae Kenyapotamus ternani
Ecology: amphibious grazer-browser
Distribution:
• Miocene of Ethiopia (1 collection), Kenya (4), Tunisia (3)
Total: 8 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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