Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Suidae
Parent taxon: Suidae according to L. C. Bishop 2010
See also Heissig 1989, McKenna and Bell 1997 and Pickford and Gupta 2001
Sister taxa: Aureliachoerus, Babyrousinae, Cainochoerinae, Chaeropotamina, Dinochoerus, Eocenchoerus, Eumaiochoerus, Gerontochoerus, Hemichoerus, Hippopotamodon, Hyosus, Hyotheriinae, Kubanochoerinae, Kubanochoerus, Listriodontinae, Lophochoerus, Mabokopithecus, Mesochoerus, Microstonyx, Namachoerinae, Nyanzachoerus, Odoichoerus, Palaeochoerinae, Paradoxodonides, Promesochoerus, Pronotochoerus, Schizochoerinae, Suinae, Xenohyus
Subtaxa: Conohyus Lophocoerus Notochoerus Parachleuastochoerus Sivachoerus Tetraconodon
Ecology: ground dwelling omnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Ethiopia (22 collections), Kenya (1), Tanzania (3)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Malawi (1), Uganda (1)
• Pliocene of Egypt (2), Ethiopia (7), Kenya (2), Malawi (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Ethiopia (1), Kenya (1), Pakistan (1)
• Miocene of Chad (1), France (4), Germany (2), Hungary (1), India (3), Kazakhstan (1), Kenya (3), Myanmar (1), Nepal (1), Pakistan (8), Poland (3), Portugal (1), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Slovakia (1), Spain (1), Switzerland (2), Thailand (1), Tunisia (1), Turkey (1)
Total: 80 collections including 85 occurrences