Dendrohyrax Gray 1868 (tree hyrax)

Mammalia - Hyracoidea - Procaviidae

Alternative spelling: Procavia (Dendrohyrax)

Parent taxon: Procaviidae according to D. T. Rasmussen et al. 1996

See also Lönnberg 1912, Nowak 1991, Olds and Shoshani 1982, Pickford 2005, Prothero and Schoch 1989, Rasmussen and Gutiérrez 2010 and Rasmussen and Simons 1988

Sister taxa: Gigantohyrax, Heterohyrax, Procavia, Prohyrax, Hyracina

Subtaxa: Dendrohyrax arboreus Dendrohyrax samueli Procavia (Dendrohyrax) crawshayi

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Ecology: scansorial herbivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of the Congo-Kinshasa (2 collections), Zambia (2)

• Miocene of Kenya (1)

Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence

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