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Orycteropus crassidens MacInness, 1956

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Orycteropus afer crassidens MacInnes, 1956

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: Late Pleistocene

 

Distribution

Kenya

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

Holotype: NHM M. 21543 (partial skeleton)

Type locality: Rusinga Island, Kenya

 

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References

Original scientific description:

MacInnes, D. (1956). Fossil tubulidentata from East Africal. Fossil Mammals of Africa 10: 1-38.

 

Other references:

Behrensmeyer, A. K., Potts, R., Plummer, T. W., Tauxe, L., Opdyke, N. and Jorstad, T. (1995). The Pleistocene locality of Kanjera, Western Kenya: stratigraphy, chronology and paleoenvironments. J. Hum. Evol. 29: 247-274.

Faith, J. Tyler. (2014). Late Pleistocene and Holocene mammal extinctions on continental Africa. Earth-Science Reviews 128: 105-121.

Lehmann, T. (2007). Amended taxonomy of the order Tubulidentata (Mammalia, Eutheria). Annals of the Transvaal Museum 44: 179-196.

Lehmann, T. (2008). Plio-Pleistocene aardvarks (Mammalia, Tubulidentata) from East Africa. Fossil Record 11(2): 67-81.

Lehman, T. (2009). Phylogeny and systematics of the Orycteropodidae (Mammalia, Tubulidentata). Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 155: 649-702.

Patterson, B. (1975). The fossil aardvarks (Mammalia: Tubulidentata). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 147(5): 186-237.

Pickford, M. (1975). New fossil Orycteropodidae (Mammalia, Tubulidentata) from East Africa. Neth. J. Zool. 25: 57-88.

Tryon, C. A., Peppe, D. J., Faith, J.T., Van Plantinga, A., Nightengale, S., Ogondo, J. and Fox, David L. (2012). Late Pleistocene artefacts and fauna from Rusinga and Mfangano islands, Lake Victoria, Kenya. Azania Archaeol. Res. Afr. 47(1): 14-38.

 

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