Orycteropus crassidens MacInness, 1956:28
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Orycteropus afer crassidens (MacInnes, 1956:28)
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: Late Pleistocene
Distribution
Kenya
Type locality: Rusinga Island, Kenya
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Holotype: NHM M. 21543 (partial skeleton)
Media
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.