Antilohyrax
Antilohyrax Temporal range: Eocene
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Hyracoidea |
Family: | †Titanohyracidae |
Genus: | †Antilohyrax Rasmussen and Simons, 2000 |
Species: | †A. pectidens
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Binomial name | |
†Antilohyrax pectidens Rasmussen and Simons, 2000
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Antilohyrax was a genus of herbivorous mammal belonging to the order Hyracoidea. Fossils were found in 1983 in Egypt, 46 m above the bottom of the Jebel Qatrani Formation. The species Antilohyrax pectidens had an approximate weight of 33–35 kg. It had features not seen in other hyraxes, including a "broad hyper-pectinate comb-like first incisor" on its lower jaw, selenodont molars and a rostrum similar to that seen in even-toed ungulates.[1]
References[]
- ^ Donald D. de Blieux and Elwyn L. Simons (2002). "Cranial and Dental Anatomy of Antilohyrax pectidens: A Late Eocene Hyracoid (Mammalia) from the Fayum, Egypt". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 22 (1): 122–136. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2002)022[0122:cadaoa]2.0.co;2. JSTOR 4524200.
Categories:
- Prehistoric hyraxes
- Prehistoric placental genera
- Eocene mammals of Africa
- Fossil taxa described in 2000
- Prehistoric afrotherian stubs