Kenyatherium is an extinct genus of rhinocerotid that lived in Africa during the Neogene period. Its only species is K. bishopi.
Kenyatherium | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Perissodactyla |
Family: | Rhinocerotidae |
Genus: | †Kenyatherium Aguirre & Guerin, 1974 |
Species: | †K. bishopi
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Binomial name | |
†Kenyatherium bishopi Aguirre & Guerin, 1974
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Distribution
editKenyatherium bishopi is known from the site of Nakali in Kenya, dating to the Miocene epoch.[1]
References
edit- ^ Handa, Naoto; Nakatsukasa, Masato; Kunimatsu, Yutaka; Tsubamoto, Takehisa; Nakaya, Hideo (1 July 2015). "New Specimens of Chilotheridium (Perissodactyla, Rhinocerotidae) from the Upper Miocene Namurungule and Nakali Formations, Northern Kenya". Paleontological Research. 19 (3): 181–194. doi:10.2517/2014PR035. ISSN 1342-8144. Retrieved 13 September 2024 – via BioOne Digital Library.