Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Tayassuidae
Alternative spelling: Hesperhys (Desmathyus)
Full reference: W. D. Matthew. 1907. A Lower Miocene fauna from South Dakota. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 23(9):169-219
Parent taxon: Hesperhyinae according to D. R. Prothero 2015
See also Carroll 1988, Gazin and Collins 1950, Matthew 1907, Morea 1981, Prothero 2021 and Wright 1998
Sister taxa: Floridachoerus, Fremdohyus, Hesperhys, Lucashyus, Marshochoerus, Stuckyhyus, Wrightohyus
Subtaxa: Desmathyus brachydontus Desmathyus pinensis
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore-omnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (1: Florida collection)
• Blancan of Mexico (1)
• Hemphillian of Mexico (8), United States (4: Florida, Oklahoma)
• Miocene to Pliocene of United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene of Costa Rica (1), United States (5: Florida, Maryland, Nevada, South Dakota)
• Harrisonian of United States (4: South Dakota)
• Oligocene of United States (1: California)
Total: 26 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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