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Kenyapotamus is a
possible ancestor of
living hippopotamuses that
lived roughly 16
million to 8
million years ago
during the
Miocene epoch. Its name reflects...
- "the
ancient of the river". Of all
identified hippos, only
Kenyapotamus is older.
Kenyapotamus, however, is only
known from
partial fossils; Archaeopotamus...
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fairly distant relatives – is not well resolved. The
enigmatic Miocene Kenyapotamus is
insufficiently known to be ****igned a
place in the
hippo phylogeny...
- The
oldest known hippopotamid is the
genus Kenyapotamus,
which lived in
Africa from 16 to 8 mya.
Kenyapotamus is
known only
through fragmentary fossils...
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black rhino specimen, the pig Nyanzac****us, an antelope, the
hippo Kenyapotamus, the
rhino Kenyatherium, the
giraffe Palaeotragus, the
horse Hipparion...
- Asia
around 35
million years ago. An
early hippopotamid is the
genus Kenyapotamus,
which lived in
Africa from 15 to 9
million years ago.
Hippopotamid species...
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gentryi Formerly ****igned to Pseudotragus.
Homoiodorcas H. tugeni****
Kenyapotamus K.
coryndonae Member D
Member E
molars the
possible ancestor of the modern...
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proboscidean Deinotherium, bovids,
suids and the
early hippopotamus Kenyapotamus.
Fossils of crocodylians,
freshwater turtles and fish have also been...
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Genus Phanourios Cyprus dwarf hippopotamus (Phanourios minutus)
Genus Kenyapotamus Family Anthracotheriidae Genus Elomeryx Genus Bothriogenys Genus Bothriodon...
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commemorated in the
names of the
fossil hippopotami Hexaprotodon coryndonae and
Kenyapotamus coryndonae, as well as the
fossil bovine Ugandax coryndonae. Leakey,...
