Amphiorycteropus

Amphiorycteropus (Latin for "near aardvark") is an extinct genus of mammals in the family Orycteropodidae within Tubulidentata. The genus is known from fossils dating from Middle Miocene to Early Pliocene, found in Africa, Asia and Europe.^[1]

Amphiorycteropus Temporal range: Middle Miocene–Early Pliocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Tubulidentata
Family:	Orycteropodidae
Genus:	†Amphiorycteropus Lehmann, 2009
Type species
Amphiorycteropus gaudryi Major, 1888
Species
5 + 2, see text

Species

Five species are recognized:^[1]

• Amphiorycteropus abundulafus (Lehmann, Vignaud, Likius & Brunet, 2005) ^[2] - Late Miocene of Chad
• Amphiorycteropus mauritanicus (Arambourg, 1959) ^[3] - Late Miocene of Algeria
• Amphiorycteropus browni (Colbert, 1933) ^[4] - Middle to Late Miocene of Pakistan
• Amphiorycteropus depereti (Helbing, 1933) ^[5] - Early Pliocene of France
• Amphiorycteropus gaudryi (Major, 1888) ^[6] - Late Miocene of Greece and Turkey

Other two species are assigned to the genus provisionally until new material are found and confirm the relationship:^[1]

• Amphiorycteropus pottieri (Ozansoy, 1965) ^[7] - Late Miocene of Turkey
• Amphiorycteropus seni (Tekkaya, 1993) ^[8] - Middle Miocene of Turkey