| Hippopotamus pentlandi Temporal range: Pleistocene |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Hippopotamidae |
| Genus: | Hippopotamus |
| Species: | †H. pentlandi |
| Binomial name | |
| †Hippopotamus pentlandi Von Meyer, 1832[1] |
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Hippopotamus pentlandi is an extinct hippopotamus. It arrived after the Messinian salinity crisis and lived during the Pleistocene on Sicily. It was the smallest of the dwarf hippos known from the Mediterranean of the Pleistocene, weighing in at 320 kg.