Mammalia - Rodentia - Caviidae
Synonyms: Oromys Leidy 1853, Prohydrochoerus Spillmann 1941
Full reference: O. P. Hay. 1926. A collection of Pleistocene vertebrates from southwestern Texas. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 68(2625):1-18
Parent taxon: Hydrochoerinae according to J. L. Prado et al. 1998
See also Albright et al. 2019, Alroy 2002, Hay 1902, Hoffstetter 1952, Kurten and Anderson 1980, Leidy 1853, McKenna and Bell 1997 and Mones 1991
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Neochoerus aesopi Neochoerus pinckneyi Neochoerus sirasakae
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Argentina (3 collections), Bolivia (1), Brazil (6), Colombia (1), Ecuador (1), El Salvador (1), Guatemala (2), Mexico (2), Nicaragua (1), Panama (1), Peru (4), United States (31: Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia), Uruguay (2), Venezuela (2)
• Blancan of Mexico (3), United States (2: Arizona, Florida)
• Pliocene of Argentina (1)
Total: 64 collections including 67 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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