Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Merycoidodontidae
Full reference: C. B. Schultz and C. H. Falkenbach. 1956. Miniochoerinae and Oreonetinae two new subfamilies of oreodonts. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 109(4):373-482
Parent taxon: Merycoidodontidae according to M. S. Stevens and J. B. Stevens 1996
See also Schultz and Falkenbach 1956 and Stevens and Stevens 2007
Sister taxa: Aclistomycterinae, Brachycrurinae, Eporeodontinae, Leptaucheniinae, Merychyinae, Merychyus pariogonus, Merycochoerinae, Merycoidodontinae, Oreonetinae, Phenacocoelinae, Promerycochoerinae, Ticholeptinae, Ustatochoerinae, Diplotremus
Subtaxa: Miniochoerus
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution:
• Oligocene of United States (79: Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming collections)
• Eocene to Oligocene of United States (1: Wyoming)
• Eocene of United States (18: Colorado, Nebraska, South Dakota, Wyoming)
Total: 98 collections including 125 occurrences