Hystrix primigenia Wagner 1848 (porcupine)

Mammalia - Rodentia - Hystricidae

Alternative combination: Lamprodon primigenius

Full reference: A. Wagner. 1848. Urweltliche Säugthier-Ueberreste aus Griechenland. Abhandlungen der Mathematisch-Physikalische Klasse der Königlich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 5:333-510

Belongs to Hystrix according to L. de Bonis et al. 1992

See also Gaudry 1867 and Wagner 1848

Sister taxa: Hystrix (Acanthion), Hystrix (Hystricops), Hystrix (Hystrix), Hystrix (Thecurus), Hystrix africaeaustralis, Hystrix angressi, Hystrix arayanensis, Hystrix cristata, Hystrix depereti, Hystrix kayae

Ecology: semifossorial herbivore-frugivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Spain (1 collection)

• Pliocene of France (1), Georgia (1), Poland (1), Spain (2)

• Miocene of Bulgaria (1), Greece (8), the Russian Federation (1), Turkey (1)

Total: 17 collections each including a single occurrence

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