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Meroehyrax
Taxonomy
Meroehyrax was named by Whitworth (1954). It is not extant.
It was assigned to Saghatheriidae by Pickford (2004); to Saghatheriinae by Prothero and Schoch (1989) and Pickford (2005); and to Pliohyracidae by Carroll (1988), Rasmussen and Gutierrez (2009) and Rasmussen and Gutiérrez (2010).
It was assigned to Saghatheriidae by Pickford (2004); to Saghatheriinae by Prothero and Schoch (1989) and Pickford (2005); and to Pliohyracidae by Carroll (1988), Rasmussen and Gutierrez (2009) and Rasmussen and Gutiérrez (2010).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1954 | Meroehyrax Whitworth p. 40 |
| 1988 | Meroehyrax Carroll |
| 1989 | Meroehyrax Prothero and Schoch p. 531 |
| 2004 | Meroehyrax Pickford p. 678 |
| 2005 | Meroehyrax Pickford p. 160 |
| 2009 | Meroehyrax Rasmussen and Gutierrez |
| 2010 | Meroehyrax Rasmussen and Gutiérrez p. 139 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. †Meroehyrax Whitworth 1954
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†Meroehyrax bateae Whitworth 1954
†Meroehyrax kyongoi Rasmussen and Gutierrez 2009
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Ji et al. 2002, Lillegraven 1979, Nowak 1999 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Oligocene to the top of the Burdigalian or 28.40000 to 15.97000 Ma
Collections (3 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Oligocene | Kenya (Turkana) | M. kyongoi (174662) | |
| Aquitanian | Kenya (Rift Valley) | M. kyongoi (174664) | |
| Burdigalian | Uganda | M. bataeae (192070) |