Amphiorycteropus

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Kingdom Animalia Class Mammalia Order Tubulidentata Rank Genus		Phylum Chordata Superorder Afrotheria Family Orycteropodidae
Similar Leptorycteropus, Plesiorycteropus, Orycteropus, Orycteropodidae, Afrotheria

Amphiorycteropus is a genus of mammals in the family Orycteropodidae within Tubulidentata. The genus is known from Middle Miocene to Early Pliocene of Africa, Asia and Europe.

Species

Five species are recognized:

Amphiorycteropus abundulafus (Lehmann, Vignaud, Likius & Brunet, 2005) - Late Miocene of Chad

Amphiorycteropus mauritanicus (Arambourg, 1959) - Late Miocene of Algeria

Amphiorycteropus browni (Colbert, 1933) - Middle to Late Miocene of Pakistan

Amphiorycteropus depereti (Helbing, 1933) - Early Pliocene of France

Amphiorycteropus gaudryi (Major, 1888) - Late Miocene of Greece and Turkey

Other two species are assigned to the genus provisionally until new material are found and confirm the relationship:

Amphiorycteropus pottieri (Ozansoy, 1965) - Late Miocene of Turkey

Amphiorycteropus seni (Tekkaya, 1993) - Middle Miocene of Turkey

References

Amphiorycteropus Wikipedia

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