The primate genus was accompanied by the aardvark " Orycteropus ".
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Although there are many fossil species, the only species surviving today is the aardvark, " Orycteropus afer ".
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The reserve is one of the only City of Cape Town nature reserves where you can still find Mystromys albicaudatus ( White-tailed Mouse ) and Orycteropus afer ( Aardvark ).
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Other non-ungulate prey known to be attacked by Nile crocodiles includes aardvarks ( " Orycteropus afer " ) and African manatees ( " Trichechus senegalensis " ).
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The earliest example from the " Orycteropus " genus was the " Orycteropus mauritanicus " found in Algeria in deposits from the middle Miocene, with an equally aged version found in Kenya.
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The earliest example from the " Orycteropus " genus was the " Orycteropus mauritanicus " found in Algeria in deposits from the middle Miocene, with an equally aged version found in Kenya.
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A 2004 morphological study by In�s Horovitz, focusing on extinct South American ungulates ( such as Notoungulata and Litopterna ), placed " Plesiorycteropus " among tubulidentates and closer to the extinct aardvark relative " Myorycteropus " than to " Orycteropus ".