Name
Viverra leakeyi.
Phonetic
Vi-ver-ra.
Named By
Petter - 1963.
Classification
Chordata, Mammalia, Carnivora, Viverredae, Viverra.
Diet
Carnivore.
Species
Size
Estimated around 59 centimetres high at the shoulder, 40 kilograms in weight.
Known locations
Ethiopia, Morocco, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania.
Time Period
Tortonian of the Miocene through to the Pliocene.
Fossil representation
Partial remains of several individuals.
– Laetoli: a Pliocene Site in Northern Tanzania. – Clarendon Press, Oxford, Great Britain – M. D. Leakey & J. M. Harris – 1987. – Basicranial anatomy of the giant viverrid from ‘E’ Quarry, Langebaanweg, South Africa. Palaeoecology and Palaeoenvironments of Late Cenozoic Mammals. – Tributes to the Career of C. S. (Rufus) Churcher 588-597. – R. M. hunt – 1996.
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