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Kichechia

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Kichechia is an extinct genus of paradoxurine carnivoran that lived in Africa during the Burdigalian stage of the Miocene epoch.[1]

Phylum:Chordata
Class:Mammalia
Infraclass:Placentalia
Order:Carnivora
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Kichechia
Temporal range: Burdigalian
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Placentalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Viverridae
Subfamily: Paradoxurinae
Genus: Kichechia
Savage, 1965
Type species
Kichechia zamanae
Savage, 1965
Other species

Kichechia savagei Adrian et al. 2018

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Distribution

The species Kichechia savagei is known exclusively from Kenya,[2][3] while the type species Kichechia zamanae has been found in both Kenya and Uganda.[4]

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