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RHOI-supported the Samburu Hills research project as a contextual project.

The faunal list below is derived from Ishida (2005).

 
Primates
   Hominoidea
      Samburupithecus kiptalami

Rodentia
   Thryonomyidae
      Paraphiomys sp.
      Paraulacodus sp.

Carnivora
   Amphicyonidae or Ursidae
      gen. et sp. indet.
   Felidae
      Machairodontinae indet.

Proboscidea
   Gomphotheriidae
      Tetralophodon sp. nov.
      Choerolophodon sp.
   Deinotheriidae
      Deinotherium sp.

Hyracoidea
   cf. Pliohyracidae
      gen. et sp. indet.

Perissodactyla
   Equidae
      Hipparion africanum
   Rhinocerotidae
      Paradiceros mukirii
      Chilotheridium pattersoni
      Kenyatherium bishopi
   Iranotheriinae sp. nov.
   Chalicotheriidae
      gen. et sp. indet.

Artiodactyla
   Suidae
      Nyanzachoerus sp. small (N. cf. devauxi)
      Nyanzachoerus sp. large
   Hippopotamidae
      Kenyapotamus coryndoni
   Giraffidae
      Palaeotragus cf. germaini
      Samotherium sp.
   Bovidae
      Boselaphini sp. large (Tragoportax sp.)
      Boselaphini sp. small (gen. et sp. nov.)
      Reduncini indet.
         Gazella sp.
         Antidorcas sp.
         Pachytragus sp.
      Bovidae indet.