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Gymnurechinus leakeyi Butler, 1956
The Natural History Museum
London, United Kingdom
Details
- Title: Gymnurechinus leakeyi Butler, 1956
- Type status: Paratype
- Specific epithet: leakeyi
- Scientific name authorship: Butler, 1956
- Phylum: Chordata
- Order: Insectivora
- Locality: Rusinga Island; Lake Victoria
- Latest era or highest erathem: Cenozoic
- Latest eon or highest eonothem: Phanerozoic
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Identified by: Prof Percy M. Butler; Royal Holloway College; Butler
- Identification Qualifier: Specimen was published using its field number. Butler made a typographical error in describing this
- Higher geography: Africa; Kenya; Rusinga Island, Lake Victoria; Africa; Kenya
- Higher classification: Animalia; Chordata; Vertebrata; Mammalia; Insectivora; Erinaceidae
- Group: Rusinga Group
- Genus: Gymnurechinus
- Formation: Hiwegi Formation
- Family: Erinaceidae
- Earliest period or lowest system: Neogene
- Earliest era or lowest erathem: Cenozoic
- Earliest epoch or lowest series: Miocene
- Earliest eon or Lowest eonothem: Phanerozoic
- Earliest age or Lowestst age: Burdigalian
- Country: Kenya
- Continent: Africa
- Class: Mammalia
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