New specimens of a primitive hippopotamus, <i>Kenyapotamus coryndonae</i>, from the Upper Miocene Nakali Formation, Kenya

• Tsubamoto Takehisa

  Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ehime University

• Yutaka Kunimatsu

  ‌Faculty of Business Administration, Ryukoku University

• Nakaya Hideo

  Faculty of Science, Kagoshima University

• Sakai Tetsuya

  ‌Interdisciplinary Faculty of Science and Engineering, Shimane University

• Saneyoshi Mototaka

  Faculty of Biosphere-Geosphere Science, Okayama University of Science

• Mbua Emma

  ‌Department of Earth Sciences, National Museums of Kenya

• Nakatsukasa Masato

  ‌Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• New specimens of a primitive hippopotamus, Kenyapotamus coryndonae, from the Upper Miocene Nakali Formation, Kenya

Abstract

New dental and astragalar specimens of a primitive hippopotamus, Kenyapotamus coryndonae (Mammalia, Cetartiodactyla, Hippopotamidae, Kenyapotaminae) from the lower Upper Miocene Nakali Formation at the Nakali locality, central Kenya, are described and illustrated. The new specimens increase the known morphological and size variations of the dentition and astragalus in this primitive hippopotamid species, which is important to understand the origin and early evolution of the Hippopotamidae.

Journal

• The Journal of the Geological Society of Japan

  The Journal of the Geological Society of Japan 121 (4), 153-159, 2015-04-15

  The Geological Society of Japan

Keywords

• Hippopotamidae
• Kenya
• Kenyapotaminae
• Kenyapotamus
• Miocene
• Nakali Introduction

Details

• CRID: 1390282681218271616
• NII Article ID: 130005089842
• NII Book ID: AN00141768
• DOI: 10.5575/geosoc.2015.0004
• ISSN: 13499963
• ISSN: 00167630
• NDL BIB ID: 026398622
• Web Site: http://id.ndl.go.jp/bib/026398622
• Web Site: https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/books/R000000004-I026398622
• Web Site: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/geosoc/121/4/121_2015.0004/_pdf
• Text Lang: en
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