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Kenyapotamus ternani
Taxonomy
Kenyapotamus ternani was named by Pickford (1983). It is not extant. Its type specimen is KNM FT 3634. Its type locality is Fort Ternan, which is in a Serravallian terrestrial siltstone in the Upper Koru Series Formation of Kenya. It is the type species of Palaeopotamus.
It was recombined as Palaeopotamus ternani by Pickford (2007).
It was recombined as Palaeopotamus ternani by Pickford (2007).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1983 | Kenyapotamus ternani Pickford p. 202 figs. Plate 1, Fig. 3 |
| 2007 | Palaeopotamus ternani Pickford p. 99 |
| 2010 | Kenyapotamus ternani Boisserie et al. p. 345 |
| 2010 | Kenyapotamus ternani Weston and Boisserie p. 853 |
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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.
†Kenyapotamus ternani Pickford 1983
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Nowak 1991, Carroll 1988, Lillegraven 1979, Nowak 1999, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: Serravallian or 13.82000 to 11.63000 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Langhian - Serravallian | Kenya | Palaeopotamus ternani (74559) | |
| Serravallian | Kenya (Central Nyanza) | Kenyapotamus ternani (type locality: 21340) |