†subfamily Tetraconodontinae Lydekker 1886 (pig)

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

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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

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