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Rupestrohyrax

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Rupestrohyrax
Temporal range: Bartonian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Hyracoidea
Family: †Titanohyracidae
Genus: †Rupestrohyrax
Species:
†R. palustris
Binomial name
†Rupestrohyrax palustris
Pickford, 2015

Rupestrohyrax is an extinct genus of titanohyracid that lived during the Bartonian stage of the Eocene epoch.

Distribution

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Rupestohyrax palustris is known from the Eoridge Limestone of Namibia.[1]

References

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  1. ↑ Pickford, Martin (2015). "New Titanohyracidae (Hyracoidea: Afrotheria) from the Late Eocene of Namibia" (PDF). Communications of the Geological Survey of Namibia. 16: 200–214.