Cretan Dwarf Hippopotamus
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| Hippopotamus creutzburgi Fossil range: Pleistocene |
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| Hippopotamus creutzburgi Boekschoten and Sondaar, 1966[1] |
The Cretan Dwarf Hippopotamus or Hippopotamus creutzburgi is an extinct hippopotamus. It lived during the Pleistocene on Crete.
Two subspecies have been named: Hippopotamus creutzburgi creutzburgi and Hippopotamus creutzburgi parvus[2]. The latter one being the smallest of the two, but still bigger than the Cypriot hippo.
Bones of the Cretan dwarf hippopotamus were found by Dorothea Bate on the plateau of Kat, in eastern Crete, in the 1920s.[3].
A similar species, the Cyprus Dwarf Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus minor) lived on the island of Cyprus until the Holocene.
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[edit] References
- ^ Boekschoten, G.J. & Sondaar, P.Y. (1966): The Pleistocene of the Katharo basin (Crete) and its Hippopotamus. Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde 36: 17-44.
- ^ Kuss, S.E., (1975): Hippopotamus creutzburgi parvus n. ssp., ein pleistozänes Zwergflusspferd von der Insel Kreta. Ber. Naturf. Ges. Freiburg i. Br. 65:5-23
- ^ Evans, Arthur: The Early Nilotic, Libyan and Egyptian Relations with Minoan Crete in The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland Vol. 55, Jul. - Dec., 1925 (Jul. - Dec., 1925), pp. 199-228
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