Maltese Hippopotamus

Maltese Hippopotamus

Taxobox
name = "Hippopotamus melitensis"
status = fossil
fossil_range = Pleistocene
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Artiodactyla
familia = Hippopotamidae
genus = "Hippopotamus"
species = †"H. melitensis"
binomial = †"Hippopotamus melitensis"
binomial_authority = Major, 1902 [Major, C.I.F., 1902. Some account of a nearly complete skeleton of "Hippopotamus madagascariensis", Guldb., from Sirabé, Madagascar, obtained in 1895. Geol. Mag. 1902 pp.193-199.]

"Hippopotamus melitensis" is an extinct hippopotamus. It lived during the Pleistocene on Malta. The absence of predators led to the dwarfing of the hippos. The majority of findings of this species are known from the Għar Dalam, a cave on Malta famous for its Pleistocene fossil deposits.

ee also

* Sicilian Hippopotamus
* Cyprus Dwarf Hippopotamus
* Cretan Dwarf Hippopotamus

References


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