Subfamily Suinae Gray 1821 (pig)

Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Suidae

Parent taxon: Suidae according to S. M. Funk et al. 2007

See also Bishop 2010, Brunet and White 2001, Hay 1902 and McKenna and Bell 1997

Sister taxa: Babyrousinae, Cainochoerinae, Chaeropotamina, Dinochoerus, Eocenchoerus, Eumaiochoerus, Gerontochoerus, Hemichoerus, Hippopotamodon, Hyosus, Hyotheriinae, Kubanochoerinae, Kubanochoerus, Listriodontinae, Lophochoerus, Mabokopithecus, Mesochoerus, Microstonyx, Namachoerinae, Palaeochoerinae, Paradoxodonides, Promesochoerus, Pronotochoerus, Schizochoerinae, Tetraconodontinae

Subtaxa: Babyrousa Babyrousini Hippohyini Hylochoerus Kolpochoerus Metridiochoerus Omochoerus Phacochoerini Phacochoerus Porcula Potamochoerini Potamochoerus Suini Sus

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Type: Sus

Ecology: ground dwelling omnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Algeria (5 collections), Austria (1), Bulgaria (1), China (29), the Congo-Kinshasa (8), Cook Islands (1), Cote D'Ivoire (1), Croatia (1), Czechia (1), Djibouti (2), Ecuador (1), Egypt (1), Eritrea (2), Eswatini (2), Ethiopia (135), France (13), Germany (10), Greece (12), India (6), Indonesia (7), Israel (7), Italy (28), Kenya (122), Laos (1), Libya (1), Madagascar (2), Malaysia (2), the Marshall Islands (2), Monaco (3), Morocco (8), the Netherlands (4), Niger (1), Northern Mariana Islands (1), the Philippines (3), Portugal (10), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (1), Rwanda (1), Slovakia (1), South Africa (39), Spain (12), Sudan (6), Tanzania (29), Thailand (3), Türkiye (2), the United Kingdom (10), United States (3: Missouri, Tennessee), Vietnam (2), Zambia (4)

• MN 16 of France (1), Greece (1), Italy (2)

• Villafranchian of Greece (3), Hungary (1), Slovakia (2)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of China (1), the Congo-Kinshasa (9), Ethiopia (14), France (2), India (1), Indonesia (2), Italy (5), Kenya (12), Malawi (4), Myanmar (1), South Africa (4), Taiwan (1), Tanzania (1), Uganda (3)

• Pliocene to Holocene of Uganda (1)

• Pliocene of Chad (3), China (3), Ethiopia (32), Georgia (1), Greece (8), Hungary (1), India (3), Indonesia (9), Italy (4), Kenya (19), Malawi (2), Moldova (2), Morocco (1), Romania (5), the Russian Federation (4), South Africa (2), Spain (1), Tanzania (22), Türkiye (1), Uganda (2), Ukraine (1)

• Turolian of China (6), Greece (8), Italy (1), Spain (1)

• Baodean of China (1)

• Miocene to Pleistocene of Ethiopia (1), the Netherlands (1)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Chad (1), Ethiopia (3), Kenya (2), Türkiye (1), Uganda (16), Ukraine (1)

• Miocene of Algeria (1), China (9), France (1), Georgia (1), Greece (5), Hungary (1), Italy (1), Kenya (1), Lebanon (1), Moldova (3), Myanmar (1), Pakistan (5), the Russian Federation (1), Thailand (2), Tunisia (2), Türkiye (2), Ukraine (3), Vietnam (1)

• Neogene of Myanmar (1), Taiwan (1)

Total: 831 collections including 1217 occurrences

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