Hippopotamus Creutzburgi
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| Scientific name | Hippopotamus creutzburgi |
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| ID | 2154545 |
About Hippopotamus Creutzburgi
Hippopotamus creutzburgi is an extinct species of hippopotamus from the island of Crete. Hippopopotamus colonized Crete probably 800,000 years ago and lived there during the Middle Pleistocene. Bones of H. creutzburgi were found by Dorothea Bate on the Katharo plateau, in eastern Crete, in the 1920s.
