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Genus: | †Megalohyrax Andrews, 1903
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Species: | M. lavocati
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Megalohyrax eocaenus Andrews, 1903
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Mixohyrax Schlosser, 1910 |
Megalohyrax is an extinct hyrax-grouped genus of herbivorous mammal that lived during the Oligocene, about 33-30 million years ago. Its fossils have been found in Africa and in Asia Minor.[1]