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The aardvark is sometimes colloquially called the "African ant bear", [6] "anteater" (not to be confused with the South American anteaters), or the "Cape anteater" [6] after the Cape of Good Hope. The name "aardvark" is Afrikaans (pronounced [ˈɑːrtfark]) and comes from earlier Afrikaans erdvark. [6]
Orycteropus afer (Pallas, 1766) – aardvark – Palaeolithic to Recent of Africa † Orycteropus abundulafus Lehmann, Vignaud, Likius & Brunet, 2005 † Orycteropus crassidens MacInnes, 1955 [4] – Pleistocene of Kenya † Orycteropus djourabensis Lehmann, Vignaud, Mackaye & Brunet, 2004 [5] – Early Pliocene to Early Pleistocene of Chad and ...
The first aardvark fossil discovered was originally named Orycteropus gaudryi (now Amphiorycteropus) and was found in Turolian deposits on the island of Samos. [1] Since then, representatives of the order Tubulidentata have been located from the Oligocene in what is now Europe, and it is believed that the order probably originated around 65–70 million years ago or in the Paleocene.
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Anteater has also been used as a common name for a number of animals that are not in Vermilingua, including the echidnas, numbat, pangolins, and aardvark. [2] [3] Anteaters are also known as antbears, although this is more commonly used as a name for the aardvark. [4]
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Aardvark, a character in The Ant and the Aardvark cartoon series voiced by John Byner; Captain Aardvark, a character in Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22; Otis the Aardvark presenter-puppet on CBBC 1994-2000; Cerebus the Aardvark, title-character in comic book series by Dave Sim
Aardvark, an animal of Africa; Giant anteater, an animal of South America; Pangolin, an animal of Africa and south Asia This page was last edited on 8 ...