| Sivameryx Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | † Anthracotheriidae |
| Genus: | † Sivameryx Lydekker, 1883 |
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Sivameryx is an extinct genus of anthracotheriid that lived in Afro-Eurasia during the Miocene epoch.
S. africanus is known from Kenya. [2] S. palaeindicus lived in the Bugti Hills of Pakistan. [3]
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