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Taxonomy
Mesochoerus was named by Shaw and Cooke (1941). It is not extant.
It was assigned to Suidae by Leakey (1943), White and Harris (1977) and Carroll (1988).
It was assigned to Suidae by Leakey (1943), White and Harris (1977) and Carroll (1988).
Species
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1941 | Mesochoerus Shaw and Cooke |
1943 | Mesochoerus Leakey p. 55 |
1977 | Mesochoerus White and Harris p. 13 |
1988 | Mesochoerus Carroll |
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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.
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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References: Nowak 1991, Lillegraven 1979, Nowak 1999, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 |
Age range: base of the Gelasian to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 2.58800 to 0.01170 Ma
Collections (10 total)
Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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Late/Upper Pliocene - Early/Lower Pleistocene | Ethiopia | M. heseloni (195542) | |
Late/Upper Pliocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | Uganda | M. majus (22178) | |
Gelasian | Tanzania | M. olduvaiensis (22596) | |
Pleistocene | Kenya | M. limnetes (22268 22270) M. sp. (22269) M. sp., M. majus (21838) | |
Pleistocene - Holocene | South Africa | M. paicae, M. lategani (21711) | |
Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | Kenya | M. majus (22272) M. sp. (22276) |