Hippopotamus melitensis

Hippopotamus melitensis Temporal range:
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Family:	Hippopotamidae
Genus:	Hippopotamus
Species:	†H. melitensis
Binomial name
Hippopotamus melitensis Major, 1902

Hippopotamus melitensis is an extinct hippopotamus from Malta. It arrived after the Messinian salinity crisis and lived during the . The absence of predators led to the dwarfing of the hippos. The majority of findings of this species are from Għar Dalam, a cave on Malta famous for its Pleistocene fossil deposits.

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