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Kenyapotamus
Taxonomy
Kenyapotamus was named by Pickford (1983). It is not extant.
It was assigned to Kenyapotaminae by Pickford (1983), McKenna and Bell (1997), Boisserie et al. (2005), Orliac et al. (2010), Boisserie et al. (2010), Weston and Boisserie (2010), Boisserie et al. (2011).
It was assigned to Kenyapotaminae by Pickford (1983), McKenna and Bell (1997), Boisserie et al. (2005), Orliac et al. (2010), Boisserie et al. (2010), Weston and Boisserie (2010), Boisserie et al. (2011).
Species
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1983 | Kenyapotamus Pickford p. 195 |
| 1997 | Kenyapotamus McKenna and Bell p. 399 |
| 2005 | Kenyapotamus Boisserie et al. |
| 2007 | Palaeopotamus Pickford p. 99 figs. Figures 5-6 |
| 2010 | Kenyapotamus Boisserie et al. p. 344 |
| 2010 | Kenyapotamus Orliac et al. p. 11872 figs. Fig. 2 |
| 2010 | Kenyapotamus Weston and Boisserie p. 853 |
| 2011 | Kenyapotamus Boisserie et al. p. 620 figs. Table 1 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. †Kenyapotamus Pickford 1983
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†Kenyapotamus coryndonae Pickford 1983
†Kenyapotamus ternani Pickford 1983
Invalid names: Palaeopotamus Pickford 2007 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Nowak 1991, Lillegraven 1979, Nowak 1999, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: base of the Serravallian to the top of the MN 9 or 13.82000 to 9.67000 Ma
Collections (8 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Langhian - Serravallian | Kenya | Palaeopotamus ternani (74559) | |
| Serravallian | Kenya | K. coryndoni (22292) | |
| Serravallian | Kenya (Central Nyanza) | K. ternani (21340) | |
| Serravallian - Tortonian | Tunisia (Gafsa) | K. sp. (35277 35279 35280) | |
| Tortonian | Kenya | K. coryndonae (219711) | |
| MN 9 | Ethiopia (Oromīya) | K. sp. (92148) |