* Orycteropus afer - aardvark - Palaeolithic to Recent of Africa
* + Orycteropus abundulafus
* + Orycteropus crassidens - Pleistocene of Kenya
* + Orycteropus djourabensis - Early Pliocene to Early Pleistocene of Chad and Kenya

Other species previously assigned to Orycteropus are now classified in the genus Amphiorycteropus.