Gigantohyrax
Gigantohyrax Temporal range: Late Pliocene
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Hyracoidea |
Family: | Procaviidae |
Genus: | †Gigantohyrax Kitching, 1965 |
Species: | †G. maguirei
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Binomial name | |
†Gigantohyrax maguirei Kitching, 1965
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Gigantohyrax was a genus of herbivorous hyrax-grouped mammals from the Pliocene Shungura Formation of Ethiopia.[1]
References[]
- ^ "Fossilworks: Gigantohyrax". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
Categories:
- Hyraxes
- Pliocene mammals of Africa
- Fossils of Ethiopia
- Fossil taxa described in 1965
- Prehistoric placental genera
- Prehistoric monotypic mammal genera
- Prehistoric afrotherian stubs