Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Merycoidodontidae

Full reference: C. B. Schultz and C. H. Falkenbach. 1941. Ticholeptinae, a new subfamily of oreodonts. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 79(1):1-105

Belongs to Mediochoerus according to M. S. Stevens et al. 2023

See also Schultz and Falkenbach 1941 and Stevens and Stevens 2007

Sister taxa: Mediochoerus blicki, Mediochoerus mohavensis

Type specimen: UNSM 2-11-8-36NP, a partial skull (Skull (lacking occipital region, frontals, and nasals) with I1-M3). Its type locality is Hemingford Quarry 24, which is in a Hemingfordian terrestrial horizon in the Runningwater Formation of Nebraska.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at Hemingford Quarry 24

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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.