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Hydrochoeropsis
Taxonomy
Hydrochoeropsis was named by Kraglievich (1930). It is not extant. Its type is Hydrochoeropsis dasseni. It was considered monophyletic by Pérez et al. (2017).
It was assigned to Hydrochoerinae by Prado et al. (1998), Pérez et al. (2017).
It was assigned to Hydrochoerinae by Prado et al. (1998), Pérez et al. (2017).
Species
H. dasseni (type species), H. wayuu
Species lacking formal opinion data
Entered
by J. Alroy on 2008-08-14; modified by M. Vallejo on 2015-04-23
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1930 | Hydrochoeropsis Kraglievich |
| 1998 | Hydrochoeropsis Prado et al. p. 796 |
| 2017 | Hydrochoeropsis Pérez et al. |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. †Hydrochoeropsis Kraglievich 1930
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†Hydrochoeropsis dasseni Kraglievich 1930
†Hydrochoeropsis wayuu Pérez et al. 2017
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Nowak 1991, Lillegraven 1979, Carroll 1988, Ji et al. 2002 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Pliocene or 3.60000 to 2.58000 Ma
Collections (4 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Pliocene | Venezuela (Falcon) | H. wayuu (122033) | |
| Late/Upper Pliocene | Argentina (Buenos Aires) | H. fontanai (53926) | |
| Late/Upper Pliocene | Argentina (Jujuy) | H. dasseni (141896) | |
| Piacenzian | Colombia (La Guajira) | Hydrochoeridae sp. (166508) |