Microhyrax

Microhyrax
Temporal range: Eocene 55.8–40.4 Ma
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Order:
Hyracoidea
Family:
†Pliohyracidae
Subfamily:
Saghatheriinae
Genus:
Microhyrax

Sudre, 1979
Species:
M. lavocati
Binomial name
Microhyrax lavocati
Sudre, 1979

Microhyrax was a prehistoric genus of herbivorous hyrax-grouped mammal. It lived during the Eocene period from 55.8 to 40.4 million years ago in modern-day Algeria.[1]

Cladogram

A phylogeny of hyracoids known from the early Eocene through the middle Oligocene epoch.[2]

  1. ^ Modern day hyrax species (Procaviidae) may have evolved from smaller members of one of the Saghatheriinae.
  2. ^ The relationship of hyracoids and Perissodactlya is controversial, and not supported by molecular data.

References

  1. ^ "Fossilworks: Microhyrax". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
  2. ^ Gheerbrant, E.; Donming, D.; Tassy, P. (2005). "Paenungulata (Sirenia, Proboscidea, Hyracoidea, and Relatives)". In Rose, Kenneth D.; Archibald, J. David (eds.). The Rise of Placental Mammals: Origins and relationships of the major extant clades. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 84–105. ISBN 978-0801880223.
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Geniohyidae
Titanohyracidae
Pliohyracidae
Procaviidae
Desmostylia?
Paleoparadoxiidae
Desmostylidae
Embrithopoda
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Arsinoitheriidae
Palaeoamasiidae
Proboscidea
Sirenia
Pliohyrax sp. Arsinoitherium zitteli
Taxon identifiers
Microhyrax


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