- cetaceans. They are
sometimes referred to as
hippopotamids.
There are two
living species of
hippopotamid in two genera; the
pygmy hippo, C****opsis liberiensis...
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Saotherium is an
extinct genus of
hippopotamid from the
Early Pliocene of Africa,
specifically Chad. It is
represented by a
single species, S. mingoz....
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pygmy hippopotamus or
pygmy hippo (C****opsis liberiensis) is a
small hippopotamid which is
native to the
forests and
swamps of West Africa,
primarily in...
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Hexaprotodon is an
extinct genus of
hippopotamid known from Asia and
possibly Africa and Europe. The name
Hexaprotodon means "six
front teeth" as some...
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terrestrial even-toed ungulates, the
closest living relatives of the
hippopotamids are
cetaceans (whales, dolphins, porpoises, etc.), from
which they diverged...
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archaic whales (****cetus and Artiocetus)
formed the
sister group of the
hippopotamid-anthracotheriid clade, but this
relationship was
weakly supported. Pickford...
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phylogenetic analyses now
indicate cetaceans are more
closely related to
hippopotamids and
other artiodactyls than they are to mesonychians, and this result...
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hippopotamus dates back only to the
Miocene (15
million years ago). The
hippopotamids are
descended from the anthracotheres, a
family of
semiaquatic and terrestrial...
- Thus the
large difference in time
between the
discovery of
cetacean and
hippopotamid fossils is
explained by the fact that
hippos simply developed their semi-aquatic...
- of
molecular data on
extant animals strongly support the
notion that
hippopotamids are the
closest relatives of
cetaceans (whales,
dolphins and porpoises)...