Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Suidae
Synonym: Hypotherium Ginsburg et al. 1991
Parent taxon: Hyotheriinae according to M. J. Orliac et al. 2006
See also Carroll 1988, Hay 1902, Liping et al. 2002, McKenna and Bell 1997, Sach and Heizmann 2001 and Weidmann and Ginsburg 1999
Sister taxa: Chicochoerus, Chleuastochoerus, Cleuastochoerus, Dubiotherium, Sinapriculus
Subtaxa: Hyotherium lacaeillei Hyotherium major Hyotherium meissneri Hyotherium platyops Hyotherium shanwangense Hyotherium soemmeringi
Type: Hyotherium soemmeringi
Ecology: ground dwelling omnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Austria (2 collections), China (9), the Czech Republic (1), France (16), Germany (10), Pakistan (1), Portugal (7), Serbia and Montenegro (2), Slovakia (2), Spain (2), Switzerland (4), Thailand (1), Turkey (1)
• Oligocene of Pakistan (1)
Total: 59 collections including 65 occurrences
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