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Antilohyrax
Temporal range: Eocene
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Hyracoidea
Family: Titanohyracidae
Genus: Antilohyrax
Rasmussen and Simons, 2000
Species: A. pectidens
Binomial name
Antilohyrax pectidens
Rasmussen and Simons, 2000

Antilohyrax was a genus of herbivorous mammal belonging to the order Hyracoidea. Fossils were found in 1983 in Egypt, 46 m above the bottom of the Jebel Qatrani Formation. The species Antilohyrax pectidens had an approximate weight of 33–35 kg. It had features not seen in other hyraxes, including a "broad hyper-pectinate comb-like first incisor" on its lower jaw, selenodont molars and a rostrum similar to that seen in even-toed ungulates.

References

  1. Donald D. de Blieux and Elwyn L. Simons (2002). "Cranial and Dental Anatomy of Antilohyrax pectidens: A Late Eocene Hyracoid (Mammalia) from the Fayum, Egypt". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 22 (1): 122–136. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2002)022[0122:cadaoa]2.0.co;2. JSTOR 4524200. S2CID 87901588.
Paenungulatomorpha
Paenungulatomorpha
Hyracoidea
Geniohyidae
Titanohyracidae
Pliohyracidae
Procaviidae
Tethytheria
Desmostylia?
Paleoparadoxiidae
Desmostylidae
Embrithopoda
Arsinoitheriidae
Palaeoamasiidae
Proboscidea
Sirenia
Pliohyrax sp. Arsinoitherium zitteli
Taxon identifiers
Antilohyrax
Antilohyrax pectidens


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