Name - Hippopotamus

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:91186 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Hippopotamus Linnaeus 1758

• Hippopotamus Patterson, Behrensmeyer & Sill 1970

Reported Taxonomic Ranks

Genus

Reported Taxonomic Hierarchies

Recent Publications

• An Early Pleistocene hippopotamus from Westbury Cave, Somerset, England: support for a previously unrecognized temperate interval in the British Quaternary record.
• Hippopotamus hunting in Predynastic Egypt: Reassessing Archaeozoological evidence.
• Increase on environmental seasonality through the European Early Pleistocene inferred from dental enamel hypoplasia.
• Taxonomy, chronology, and dispersal patterns of Western European Quaternary hippopotamuses: New insight from Portuguese fossil material.
• The Hippopotamus remains from the latest Early Pleistocene site of Cava Redicicoli (Rome, central Italy).

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