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Sus giganteus
Taxonomy
Sus giganteus was named by Falconer and Cautley (1847). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Sewalik Hills [GENERAL], which is in a Pliocene/Pleistocene terrestrial horizon in India.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
S. advena, S. australis, S. bijiashanensis, S. choeroides, S. domesticus, S. erymanthius, S. erymanthius, S. gadarensis, S. gomphotherioides, S. houi, S. karnuliensis, S. liuchengensis, S. macrognathus, S. minor, S. namadicus, S. palaeindicus, S. palustris, S. peii, S. priscus, S. scofa, S. scrofa, S. scrofa, S. sinhaleyus, S. sondaari, S. strozzi, S. xiaozhu
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1847 | Sus giganteus Falconer and Cautley |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
†Sus giganteus Falconer and Cautley 1847
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Lillegraven 1979, Hendy et al. 2009, Nowak 1999, Nowak 1991 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Pliocene to the top of the Middle Pleistocene or 3.60000 to 0.12900 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Pliocene - Middle Pleistocene | India (Punjab) | Sus giganteus (type locality: 203109) |