Heterohyrax Gray 1868 (rock hyrax)
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Mammalia - Hyracoidea - Procaviidae
Alternative spellings: Dendrohyrax (Heterohyrax), Procavia (Heterohyrax)
Parent taxon: Procaviidae according to R. E. Barry and J. Shoshani 2000
See also Nowak 1991, Olds and Shoshani 1982, Pickford 2005, Prothero and Schoch 1989, Rasmussen and GutiƩrrez 2010, Rasmussen et al. 1996 and Rasmussen and Simons 1988
Sister taxa: Dendrohyrax, Gigantohyrax, Procavia, Prohyrax, Hyracina
Subtaxa: Heterohyrax auricampensis Heterohyrax brucei
Ecology: scansorial herbivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Kenya (3 collections), Tanzania (1), Zambia (2)
• Pliocene of Ethiopia (1)
• Miocene of Kenya (1), Namibia (1)
Total: 9 collections each including a single occurrence
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