Microhyrax
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{{Taxobox
| name = Microhyrax
| fossil_range = Eocene {{Fossil range|55.8|40.4}}
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| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Chordata
| classis = Mammalia
| ordo = Hyracoidea
| familia = †Pliohyracidae
| subfamilia = {{extinct}}Saghatheriinae
| genus = †Microhyrax
| genus_authority = Sudre, 1979
| species = M. lavocati
| binomial = Microhyrax lavocati
| binomial_authority = Sudre, 1979
}}
Microhyrax was a prehistoric genus of herbivorous hyrax-grouped mammal. It lived during the Eocene period from 55.8 to 40.4 million years ago in modern-day Algeria.{{Cite web|title=Fossilworks: Microhyrax|url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=86724|access-date=17 December 2021|website=fossilworks.org}}
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A phylogeny of hyracoids known from the early Eocene through the middle Oligocene epoch.{{cite book |author1=Gheerbrant, E. |author2=Donming, D. |author3=Tassy, P. |title=The Rise of Placental Mammals: Origins and relationships of the major extant clades |date=2005 |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press |location=Baltimore |isbn=978-0801880223 |pages=84–105 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DhchVG_rbQ8C&pg=PA84 |editor1=Rose, Kenneth D. |editor2=Archibald, J. David |chapter=Paenungulata (Sirenia, Proboscidea, Hyracoidea, and Relatives)}} {{notelist|group=upper-alpha}}
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|label1=Eutheria
|1={{clade
|label1=Afrotheria
|1={{clade
|2=Proboscidea (elephants)
|label1=Hyracoidea
|1={{clade
|1=Seggeurius
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|2={{clade
|1=Microhyrax
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|2={{clade
|label1=Saghatheriinae {{efn|group=upper-alpha|Modern day hyrax species (Procaviidae) may have evolved from smaller members of one of the Saghatheriinae.}}
|1={{clade
|1=Bunohyrax
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|2={{clade
|1=Pachyhyrax
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|2={{clade
|1=Thyrohyrax
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|2={{clade
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|1={{clade
|label1=
|1={{clade
|1=Selenohyrax
|2=Saghatherium
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|2={{clade
|1=Titanohyrax
|2=Antilohyrax
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|2=Megalohyrax
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|label2=Geniohyiinae
|2=Geniohyus
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|2=Perissodactyla {{efn|group=upper-alpha|The relationship of hyracoids and Perissodactlya is controversial, and not supported by molecular data.}}
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Category:Fossil taxa described in 1979
Category:Prehistoric placental genera
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