''Hippopotamus pentlandi'' is an extinct

hippopotamus The hippopotamus ( ; : hippopotamuses or hippopotami; ''Hippopotamus amphibius''), also called the hippo, common hippopotamus, or river hippopotamus, is a large semiaquatic mammal native to sub-Saharan Africa. It is one of only two extan ...

from

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. It arrived during the

Pleistocene The Pleistocene ( , often referred to as the ''Ice age'') is the geological epoch that lasted from about 2,580,000 to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations. Before a change was finally confirmed in ...

. It is the largest of the insular dwarf hippos known from the Pleistocene of the

Mediterranean The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Western Europe, Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa ...

, "at most 20% smaller than the mainland forms". It was present in Sicily until at least the latest Middle Pleistocene around 120 kya.

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Ferrara University Museum
Photo of ''Hippopotamus pentlandi'' Extinct hippopotamuses Prehistoric mammals of Europe Pleistocene even-toed ungulates Messinian Fossil taxa described in 1832 {{italy-stub

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