Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Suidae
Parent taxon: Suidae according to L. C. Bishop 2010
See also Carroll 1988, McKenna and Bell 1997 and White and Harris 1977
Sister taxa: Aureliachoerus, Babyrousinae, Cainochoerinae, Chaeropotamina, Dinochoerus, Eocenchoerus, Eumaiochoerus, Gerontochoerus, Hemichoerus, Hippopotamodon, Hyosus, Hyotheriinae, Kubanochoerinae, Kubanochoerus, Listriodontinae, Lophochoerus, Mabokopithecus, Mesochoerus, Microstonyx, Namachoerinae, Odoichoerus, Palaeochoerinae, Paradoxodonides, Promesochoerus, Pronotochoerus, Schizochoerinae, Suinae, Tetraconodontinae, Xenohyus
Subtaxa: Nyanzachoerus jaegeri Nyanzachoerus kanamensis Nyanzachoerus khinzir Nyanzachoerus nakaliensis
Ecology: ground dwelling omnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Kenya (3 collections)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Kenya (2), Malawi (1)
• Pliocene of Ethiopia (21), Kenya (20), Malawi (1), Senegal (1), South Africa (2), Tanzania (6), Uganda (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Chad (1), Ethiopia (4), Kenya (4), South Africa (1), Tanzania (4), Uganda (29)
• Miocene of Algeria (1), Kenya (5), South Africa (1), Tunisia (1)
Total: 109 collections including 144 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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