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Dorcatherium libiensis Hamilton, 1973
The Natural History Museum
London, United Kingdom
Details
- Title: Dorcatherium libiensis Hamilton, 1973
- Verbatim longitude: 020 30 E
- Verbatim latitude: 29 N
- Type status: Holotype
- Specific epithet: libiensis
- Scientific name authorship: Hamilton, 1973
- Phylum: Chordata
- Order: Artiodactyla
- Locality: Gebel Zelten; Jabal Zaltan; Jebel Zelten; Djebel Zelten; Gabal Zaltan
- Latest period or highest system: Neogene
- Latest era or highest erathem: Cenozoic
- Latest epoch or Highest series: Miocene
- Latest eon or highest eonothem: Phanerozoic
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Identified by: W. R Hamilton; Hamilton
- Higher geography: Africa; Libya; Gebel Zelten, Jabal Zaltan, Jebel Zelten, Djebel Zelten, Gabal Zaltan; Africa; Libyan
- Higher classification: Animalia; Chordata; Vertebrata; Mammalia; Artiodactyla; Tragulidae
- Genus: Dorcatherium
- Formation: Marada Formation
- Family: Tragulidae
- Earliest period or lowest system: Paleogene
- Earliest era or lowest erathem: Cenozoic
- Earliest epoch or lowest series: Oligocene
- Earliest eon or Lowest eonothem: Phanerozoic
- Country: Libya
- Continent: Africa
- Class: Mammalia
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