Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Suidae
Parent taxon: Suidae according to S. M. Funk et al. 2007
See also Bishop 2010, Brunet and White 2001, Hay 1902 and McKenna and Bell 1997
Sister taxa: Aureliachoerus, Babyrousinae, Cainochoerinae, Chaeropotamina, Dinochoerus, Eocenchoerus, Eumaiochoerus, Gerontochoerus, Hemichoerus, Hippopotamodon, Hyosus, Hyotheriinae, Kubanochoerinae, Kubanochoerus, Listriodontinae, Lophochoerus, Mabokopithecus, Mesochoerus, Microstonyx, Namachoerinae, Nyanzachoerus, Odoichoerus, Palaeochoerinae, Paradoxodonides, Promesochoerus, Pronotochoerus, Schizochoerinae, Tetraconodontinae, Xenohyus
Subtaxa: Babyrousini Hippohyini Hylochoerus Kolpochoerus Metridiochoerus Omochoerus Phacochoerini Phacochoerus Porcula Potamochoerini Potamochoerus Suini Sus
Type: Sus
Ecology: ground dwelling omnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Algeria (5 collections), Austria (1), Bulgaria (1), China (24), the Congo-Kinshasa (8), Cook Islands (1), Cote D'Ivoire (1), Croatia (1), the Czech Republic (1), Djibouti (2), Ecuador (1), Egypt (1), Eritrea (2), Ethiopia (135), France (13), Germany (10), Greece (12), India (1), Indonesia (6), Israel (7), Italy (28), Kenya (122), Libya (1), Madagascar (2), the Marshall Islands (2), Monaco (3), Morocco (8), the Netherlands (4), Niger (1), Northern Mariana Islands (1), the Philippines (3), Portugal (2), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (1), Rwanda (1), Slovakia (1), South Africa (39), Spain (11), Sudan (6), Swaziland (2), Tanzania (29), Thailand (1), Turkey (2), the United Kingdom (10), United States (3: Missouri, Tennessee), Vietnam (2), Zambia (4)
• Pliocene to Holocene of Uganda (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of China (1), the Congo-Kinshasa (10), Ethiopia (14), France (2), Greece (1), India (1), Indonesia (2), Italy (5), Kenya (12), Malawi (4), South Africa (4), Taiwan (1), Tanzania (1), Uganda (2)
• Pliocene of Chad (3), China (3), the Congo-Kinshasa (1), Ethiopia (32), France (1), Georgia (1), Greece (11), Hungary (2), India (3), Indonesia (9), Italy (6), Kenya (19), Malawi (2), Moldova (2), Morocco (1), Myanmar (1), Romania (5), the Russian Federation (4), Slovakia (2), South Africa (2), Spain (1), Tanzania (22), Turkey (1), Uganda (1), Ukraine (1)
• Baodean of China (1)
• Miocene to Pleistocene of Ethiopia (1), the Netherlands (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Chad (1), Ethiopia (3), Greece (2), Kenya (2), Turkey (1), Uganda (16), Ukraine (1)
• Neogene of Myanmar (1), Taiwan (1)
• Miocene of Algeria (1), China (15), France (1), Georgia (1), Greece (11), Hungary (1), Italy (2), Kenya (1), Lebanon (1), Moldova (3), Myanmar (1), Pakistan (5), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (1), Thailand (2), Tunisia (2), Turkey (2), Ukraine (3), Vietnam (1)
Total: 806 collections including 1178 occurrences