Komba (primate)
| Komba Temporal range: Early Miocene–Middle Miocene | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Suborder: | Strepsirrhini |
| Infraorder: | Lemuriformes |
| Superfamily: | Lorisoidea |
| Family: | Galagidae |
| Genus: | †Komba Simpson, 1967 |
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Komba is an extinct genus of galagos, containing species known from the early to middle Miocene of Kenya and Uganda. A new species, K. walkeri, was described from the early Miocene of Kenya by Terry Harrison in 2010.[1]
References
- ↑ Harrison, Terry (2010). "Chapter 20: Later Tertiary Lorisiformes (Strepsirrhini, Primates)". In Werdelin, L.; Sanders, W.J. Cenozoic Mammals of Africa. University of California Press. pp. 333–349. ISBN 978-0-520-25721-4.
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