Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Suidae
Parent taxon: Suidae according to L. C. Bishop 2010
See also Heissig 1989, McKenna and Bell 1997 and Pickford and Gupta 2001
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, Suinae
Subtaxa: Conohyus Lophocoerus Notochoerus Nyanzachoerus Parachleuastochoerus Sivachoerus Tetraconodon
Ecology: ground dwelling omnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Ethiopia (22 collections), Kenya (4), Tanzania (3)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Kenya (2), Malawi (2), Uganda (1)
• Pliocene of Egypt (2), Ethiopia (27), Kenya (20), Malawi (2), Senegal (1), South Africa (2), Tanzania (6), Uganda (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Chad (1), Ethiopia (4), Kenya (4), Pakistan (1), South Africa (1), Tanzania (4), Uganda (29)
• Miocene of Algeria (1), Chad (1), France (4), Germany (2), Hungary (1), India (3), Kazakhstan (1), Kenya (7), Myanmar (1), Nepal (1), Pakistan (8), Poland (3), Portugal (1), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Slovakia (1), Spain (1), Switzerland (2), Thailand (1), Tunisia (2), Turkey (1)
Total: 182 collections including 229 occurrences