Kingdom Animalia Class Mammalia Family Hippopotamidae Scientific name Hippopotamus pentlandi | Phylum Chordata Order Artiodactyla Genus Hippopotamus Rank Species | |
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Similar Hippopotamus creutzburgi, Hippopotamus antiquus, Choeropsis madagascariensis, Cyprus dwarf hippopotamus, Palaeoloxodon mnaidriensis | ||
Hippopotamus pentlandi is an extinct hippopotamus from Sicily. It arrived during the Pleistocene. It is the smallest of the insular dwarf hippos known from the Pleistocene of the Mediterranean, weighing in at 320 kg.
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