Sicilian Hippopotamus
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| Hippopotamus pentlandi Fossil range: Pleistocene |
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| Hippopotamus pentlandi Von Meyer, 1832[1] |
Hippopotamus pentlandi is an extinct hippopotamus. It lived during the Pleistocene on Sicily. It was the biggest of the dwarf hippos known from the Mediterranean of the Pleistocene.
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- ^ · Von Meyer, H., 1832. Palaeologica zur Geschichte der Erde und ihrer Geschöpfe. Frankfurt. 11. 560pp.
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