On the origins of Hippopotamidae togetherwith descriptions of two new species, a new genus and a new subfamily from the Miocene of Kenya
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Hippopotamids are believed to have originated in Africa sometime in the mid-Miocene period, approximately 11-16 million years ago, in the areas of modern-day Kenya and Tunisia.
“Hippopotamids are believed to have originated in Africa sometime in the mid-Miocene period, approximately 11-16 million years ago, in the areas of modern-day Kenya and Tunisia (Pickford 1983;Boisserie 2005).”
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- Authors
- Pickford, M.
- Affiliations
- National Museums of Kenya (KE)
- Corresponding author
- Pickford, Martin
- ORCID
- Pickford, Martin
- Venue
- Geobios
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1983
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 193-217
- ISSN
- 0016-6995 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2038607991
- Cited by
- 81
- References
- 8
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 3 · 2017: 4 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 4 · 2013: 2
- FWCI
- 2.06
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Geobios (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Leakey Foundation
- Government of the Republic of Kenya
- Natural Environment Research Council
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Evolution and Paleontology Studies
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Keywords
- hippopotamus, new genus, new species, new subfamily, Miocene, anthracotheres, peccaries, paleoenvironment
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