“…Pickford, 2007bPickford, , 2008Pickford, , 2011Boisserie and Lihoreau, 2006;Boisserie et al, 2010Boisserie et al, , 2011Tsubamoto et al, 2011;Alloing-Séguier et al, 2014;Lihoreau et al, 2015; and references cited therein). The undoubtedly oldest record of the family is from the middle Miocene of Kenya, which has yielded a kenyapotamine hippopotamid, Palaeopotamus ternani (= Kenyapotamus ternani) (Pickford, 1983(Pickford, , 2007b(Pickford, , 2008(Pickford, , 2011Boisserie and Lihoreau, 2006;Boisserie, 2007;Boisserie et al, 2010;Weston and Boisserie, 2010).…”