Mammalia - Tubulidentata - Orycteropodidae

Full reference: M. Pickford. 1975. New fossil Orycteropodidae (Mammalia, Tubulidentata) from East Africa. Orycteropus minutus sp. nov. and Orycteropus chemeldoi sp. nov. Netherlands Journal of Zoology 25(1):57-88

Belongs to Orycteropus according to Pickford 1975

Sister taxa: Orycteropus abundulafus, Orycteropus afer, Orycteropus africanus, Orycteropus browni, Orycteropus chemeldoi, Orycteropus crassidens, Orycteropus depereti, Orycteropus djourabensis, Orycteropus erikssoni, Orycteropus gaudryi, Orycteropus leptodon, Orycteropus mauritanicus, Orycteropus pilgrimi, Orycteropus pottieri

Type specimen: KNM SO 1231, a set of limb elements (right metacarpals II and III). Its type locality is Songhor (Main Site), which is in the Miocene of horizon Kenya.

Ecology: semifossorial insectivore