Global InformationQarunavus information
| Qarunavus Temporal range:
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia
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| Phylum: | Chordata
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| Class: | Mammalia
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| Order: | † Ptolemaiida
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| Genus: | † Qarunavus Simons & Gingerich, 1974
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| Type species | |
| Qarunavus meyeri Simons & Gingerich, 1974
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Qarunavus is an extinct genus of mammals in the order Ptolemaiida. A single species, Qarunavus meyeri is known from the Lower Oligocene Jebel Qatrani Formation of modern-day Egypt. Described by Elwyn Simons & Philip Gingerich in 1974, the genus name is a combination of Qarun, the Arabic term for Lake Moeris, and -avus, Latin for "ancestor". The specific epithet honors Grant E. Mayer of the Yale Peabody Museum.[1]
- ^ Simons, E. L.; Gingerich, P. D. (1974). "New carnivorous mammals from the Oligocene of Egypt" (PDF). Annals of the Geological Survey of Egypt. 4: 157–166.