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throughout most of Africa, Europe, and Asia. The
descendants of the
giant "
hyracoids" (common
ancestors to the hyraxes, elephants, and sirenians)
evolved in...
- the
fossil record.
Titanohyrax is
unusual among the
numerous Paleogene hyracoids by its
lophoselenodont teeth (having
teeth that are
lophodont and selenodont)...
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carnivorous ptolemaiids,
large hyaenodonts, a vast
number of
highly diverse hyracoids including species the size of rhinos,
anthracotheres and the
bizarre embrithopod...
- 55.8 to 40.4
million years ago in modern-day Algeria. A
phylogeny of
hyracoids known from the
early Eocene through the
middle Oligocene epoch. Modern...
- Pliohyrax, is a
genus of
hyracoids (the cavy-like
group of
animals most
closely related to
elephants and manatees). It grew to
sizes greatly exceeding...
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within the
continent akin to
other endemic mammals like arsinoitheres,
hyracoids, and
catarrhine primates plus non-endemics such as
anthracotheres and...
- were
molariform and
quite similar from each others, as in
other large hyracoids like
Pliohyrax and Megalohyrax. The
molars are much
stronger and elongated...
-
invalid clade (mirorder) of
ungulate mammals comprising the perissodactyls,
hyracoids, and
tethytheres (sirenians, proboscideans, and
related extinct taxa)...
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hyraxes were
extremely large compared to
modern small relatives. The
largest hyracoid ever
evolved is
Titanohyrax ultimus. With the m****
estimation in rage of...
-
Dimaitherium is an
extinct hyracoid which existed in what is now Egypt,
during the late
Eocene period. It was
first named by
Eugenie Barrow, Erik R. Seiffert...
