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Archaeopotamus Boisserie, 2005 †

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Chordata - chordates »  class Mammalia - mammals »  order Artiodactyla - even-toed ungulates »  family Hippopotamidae »  subfamily Hippopotaminae - hippopotamuses

Type taxon:Hexaprotodon lothagamensis Weston, 2000
Temporal range:Tertiary > Neogene > Miocene > Upper Miocene – Pliocene > Piacenzian
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Included taxa

Number of records: 3

species Archaeopotamus harvardi (Coryndon, 1977) †
species Archaeopotamus lothagamensis (Weston, 2000) †
Tertiary: Upper Miocene
species Archaeopotamus qeshta Boisserie, Schuster, Beech, Hill & Bibi, 2017 †
Tertiary: Upper Miocene

Links and literature

EN Paleobiology Database [77329]

Paleobiology Database [https://paleobiodb.org/] [as Archaeopotamus Boisserie, 2005]
Data retrieved on: 11 December 2015
EN The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera [1157735]

Rees, T. (compiler): The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera [https://www.irmng.org] [as Archaeopotamus Boisserie, 2005]
Data retrieved on: 30 November 2019
EN Orliac M., Boisserie J.-R., MacLatchy L., Lihoreau F. (2010): Early Miocene hippopotamids (Cetartiodactyla) constrain the phylogenetic and spatiotemporal settings of hippopotamid origin [as Archaeopotamus]
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† extinct taxon



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