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Walangania gracilis Whitworth, 1958

The Natural History Museum

The Natural History Museum
London, United Kingdom

  • Title: Walangania gracilis Whitworth, 1958
  • Type status: Part of Holotype
  • Specific epithet: gracilis
  • Scientific name authorship: Whitworth, 1958
  • Recorded by: Louis S. Leakey; b.07 August 1903; d.01 October 1972; Leakey
  • Phylum: Chordata
  • Order: Artiodactyla
  • Locality: Walangani, Mfwanganu Island; Mfwangano Island
  • Latest era or highest erathem: Cenozoic
  • Latest eon or highest eonothem: Phanerozoic
  • Kingdom: Animalia
  • Identified by: Thomas Whitworth; Whitworth
  • Higher geography: Africa; Kenya; Walangani, Mfwanganu Island, Mfwangano Island
  • Higher classification: Animalia; Chordata; Vertebrata; Mammalia; Artiodactyla; Pecora; Incertae sedis
  • Group: Rusinga Group
  • Genus: Walangania
  • Family: Incertae sedis
  • 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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