Fore limb bones of late Pleistocene dwarf hippopotamuses (Mammalia, Cetartiodactyla) from Madagascar previously determined as belonging to the crocodylid Voay Brochu, 2007

In 1898, subfossil material of a crocodylian from the late Pleistocene Madagascan locality of Sirab , North Betsileo (today Antsirab ; Fig. 1) was purchased for the Museum f r Naturkunde in Berlin. The material comprises cranial and lots of postcranial material of at least three individuals, and had been labelled as “Crocodylus robustus” Grandidier & Vaillant, 1872. The taxon “Crocodylus robustus” was revised by Brochu (2007) as having a closer phylogenetic relationship to the genus Osteolaemus (the extant African dwarf crocodile) than to extant Crocodylus. Consequently, the taxon was renamed as Voay robustus (Grandidier & Vaillant, 1872) (Brochu 2007). Presumably because of the absence of a published record about the material in the Museum f r Naturkunde and the absence of a catalogue entry for this specimen, Brochu was not aware of the existence of this material in Berlin and did not include it into his revision. In 2009, Bickelmann & Klein finally described the material and could convincingly demonstrate that it belonged to the