Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Suidae
Parent taxon: Suidae according to G. Theodorou et al. 2003
See also Carroll 1988 and McKenna and Bell 1997
Sister taxa: Babyrousinae, Cainochoerinae, Chaeropotamina, Dinochoerus, Eocenchoerus, Eumaiochoerus, Gerontochoerus, Hemichoerus, Hippopotamodon, Hyosus, Hyotheriinae, Kubanochoerinae, Kubanochoerus, Listriodontinae, Lophochoerus, Mabokopithecus, Mesochoerus, Namachoerinae, Palaeochoerinae, Paradoxodonides, Promesochoerus, Pronotochoerus, Schizochoerinae, Suinae, Tetraconodontinae
Subtaxa: Microstonyx binxianensis Microstonyx erymanthius Microstonyx major
Ecology: ground dwelling omnivore
Distribution:
• Turolian of Afghanistan (1 collection), Bulgaria (4), Greece (4), Kyrgyzstan (1), Türkiye (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Greece (1)
• Miocene of China (1), France (1), Georgia (1), Greece (8), Moldova (2), Spain (2), Türkiye (3), Ukraine (3)
Total: 33 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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