| Microhyrax Temporal range: Eocene
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Placentalia |
| Order: | Hyracoidea |
| Family: | †Pliohyracidae |
| Subfamily: | †Saghatheriinae |
| Genus: | †Microhyrax Sudre, 1979 |
| Species: | †M. lavocati
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| Binomial name | |
| †Microhyrax lavocati Sudre, 1979
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Microhyrax was a prehistoric genus of herbivorous hyrax-grouped mammal. It lived during the Eocene period from 55.8 to 40.4 million years ago in modern-day Algeria.1
Cladogram
A phylogeny of hyracoids known from the early Eocene through the middle Oligocene epoch.2
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- Modern day hyrax species (Procaviidae) may have evolved from smaller members of one of the Saghatheriinae.
- The relationship of hyracoids and Perissodactlya is controversial, and not supported by molecular data.
References
References
- "Fossilworks: Microhyrax". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
- Gheerbrant, E.; Donming, D.; Tassy, P. (2005). "Paenungulata (Sirenia, Proboscidea, Hyracoidea, and Relatives)". In Rose, Kenneth D.; Archibald, J. David (eds.). The Rise of Placental Mammals: Origins and relationships of the major extant clades. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 84–105. ISBN 978-0801880223.