| Orycteropus Temporal range:
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| Orycteropus afer – Aardvark | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Tubulidentata |
| Family: | Orycteropodidae |
| Genus: | Orycteropus É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1796[1] |
| Type species | |
| Myrmecophaga afra Pallas, 1766
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Orycteropus is a genus of mammals in the family Orycteropodidae within Tubulidentata.[2] The genus is known from Late Miocene to recent of Africa.[3]
The only living species within Tubulidentata is the aardvark (Orycteropus afer).
- ^ Woodman, Neal (2021). "Whence Orycteropus? The correct authorship and date for the generic name of the aardvark (Mammalia, Tubulidentata, Orycteropodidae)". Bionomina. 25 (1): 21–34. doi:10.11646/bionomina.25.1.2. S2CID 245309737.
- ^ Schlitter, D.A. (2005). "Order Tubulidentata". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 86. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
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