†subfamily Tetraconodontinae Lydekker 1886 (pig)

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

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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

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