Komba (mammal)
Komba Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Primates |
Suborder: | Strepsirrhini |
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
[edit]- ^ 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.