Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Suidae
Full reference: O. Thomas. 1904. The Forest-pig of Central Africa. Nature 70:577
Parent taxon: Suinae according to S. M. Funk et al. 2007
See also Carroll 1988, McKenna and Bell 1997, Thomas 1904, Thomas 1904 and White and Harris 1977
Sister taxa: Babyrousini, Hippohyini, Kolpochoerus, Metridiochoerus, Omochoerus, Phacochoerini, Phacochoerus, Porcula, Potamochoerini, Potamochoerus, Suini, Sus
Subtaxa: Hylochoerus euilus Hylochoerus meinertzhageni
Ecology: ground dwelling omnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of the Congo-Kinshasa (3 collections), Cote D'Ivoire (1), Ethiopia (15), Kenya (9), Rwanda (1), Tanzania (1)
• Pliocene to Holocene of Uganda (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of the Congo-Kinshasa (8), Ethiopia (2), Malawi (2)
• Pliocene of Chad (1), Ethiopia (21), Kenya (18), South Africa (1), Tanzania (21), Uganda (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Kenya (1)
• Miocene to Pleistocene of Ethiopia (1)
Total: 108 collections including 109 occurrences
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