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Meaning of amphiorycteropus




Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

amphiorycteropus
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It means you can dig or dig with both feet. It is the name of a genus of extinct mammals that became known as Miocene anteating pigs. Today there is still an animal in Africa, considered living fossil. It is called Oricteropo, anthill pig, belong to the genus Orycteropus and the family Orycteropodidae.

  




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Amphiorycteropus : Extinct genus of mammal in the order of tubulidents known by the mid-Miocene strata fossils to the Pliocene, in Africa, Asia and Europe.

  



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