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Taxonomy
Phacochoerus was named by Cuvier (1826) [also said to be 1817]. It is extant.
It was assigned to Suina by Gray (1825); to Artiodactyla by Owen (1848); to Suidae by Thomas (1904), White and Harris (1977), Carroll (1988); to Phacochoerini by McKenna and Bell (1997); and to Suinae by Funk et al. (2007).
It was assigned to Suina by Gray (1825); to Artiodactyla by Owen (1848); to Suidae by Thomas (1904), White and Harris (1977), Carroll (1988); to Phacochoerini by McKenna and Bell (1997); and to Suinae by Funk et al. (2007).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1825 | Phascochaerus Gray p. 343 |
| 1826 | Phacochoerus Cuvier |
| 1848 | Phacochoerus Owen p. 139 |
| 1904 | Phacochoerus Thomas p. 195 |
| 1977 | Phacochoerus White and Harris p. 13 |
| 1988 | Phacochoerus Carroll |
| 1997 | Phacochoerus McKenna and Bell p. 396 |
| 2007 | Phacochoerus Funk et al. p. 429 |
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G. Phacochoerus Cuvier 1826 [warthog]
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Phacochoerus aethiopicus Pallas 1766 [desert warthog]
Phacochoerus africanus Gmelin 1788 [common warthog]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Nowak 1999, Nowak 1991, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Lillegraven 1979 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Gelasian to the top of the Holocene or 2.58800 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 1.806 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 1.806 Ma
Collections (91 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Pliocene - Pleistocene | Malawi | Phacochoerus sp. (22323) | |
| Gelasian | Ethiopia | Phacochoerus modestus (21575 21586 21621 21684) Phacochoerus sp. (21632) | |
| Gelasian | Kenya | Phacochoerus sp. (32116) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | South Africa | Phacochoerus sp. (21824) | |
| Gelasian - Calabrian | Tanzania | Phacochoerus antiquus (21974) | |
| Pleistocene | South Africa | Phacochoerus aethiopicus (21913 21915 21916 21929 21956) Phacochoerus antiquus (22329) Phacochoerus sp. (21825 21828 21829) | |
| Pleistocene | Egypt | Phacochoerus aethiopicus (21874) | |
| Pleistocene | Morocco | Phacochoerus africanus (34329) | |
| Pleistocene | South Africa (Orange Free) | Phacochoerus aethiopicus (21867) | |
| Pleistocene | Kenya | Phacochoerus aethiopicus (21963) | |
| Pleistocene - Holocene | Tanzania | Phacochoerus africanus (22180 22181 22185 22186 22188 22189 22191 22192) | |
| Pleistocene - Holocene | South Africa | Phacochoerus aethiopicus (21948 21949 21950 21951 21957) | |
| Pleistocene - Holocene | Morocco | Phacochoerus africanus (21856) | |
| Pleistocene - Holocene | South Africa (Orange Free) | Phacochoerus aethiopicus (21868) | |
| Pleistocene - Holocene | Zambia | Phacochoerus aethiopicus (21924) Phacochoerus sp. (21854) | |
| Pleistocene - Holocene | Congo-Kinshasa | Phacochoerus aethiopicus (22074) Phacochoerus ethiopicus (22103) | |
| Calabrian | Tanzania | Phacochoerus antiquus (21970) | |
| Calabrian | South Africa | Phacochoerus aethiopicus (21923 21928) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Morocco | Phacochoerus africanus (34287 34330) | |
| Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | Tanzania | Phacochoerus koiropotamus, Phacochoerus aethiopicus (21893) | |
| Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | Kenya | Phacochoerus aethiopicus (21277 22272) Phacochoerus sp. (22276) | |
| Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | Ethiopia | Phacochoerus aethiopicus (22129 22156 22169) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Kenya (Athi-Kapiti Plains) | Phacochoerus aethiopicus (32113) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Congo-Kinshasa | Phacochoerus aethiopicus (22065 22066) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | South Africa | Phacochoerus aethiopicus (96974) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Kenya (Athi-Kapiti plains) | Phacochoerus aethiopicus (32115 32124) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Kenya (Athi-Kapiti) | Phacochoerus aethiopicus (32119) | |
| Holocene | Niger | Phacochoerus aethiopicus (83303) | |
| Holocene | South Africa (Orange Free) | Phacochoerus aethiopicus (21860 21908 21909 21911 21912 21942 21943 21944) | |
| Holocene | Tanzania | Phacochoerus aethiopicus (21690) | |
| Holocene | Zambia | Phacochoerus aethiopicus (21894) Phacochoerus sp. (21895) | |
| Holocene | Kenya | Phacochoerus aethiopicus (21933 21935 21936 21938 22310) Phacochoerus sp. (21939) | |
| Holocene | South Africa | Phacochoerus aethiopicus (21866 21914 21946) | |
| Holocene | Congo-Kinshasa | Phacochoerus aethiopicus (22067 22068) | |
| Holocene | South Africa (N. Transraal) | Phacochoerus aethiopicus (21693) | |
| Holocene | Sudan | Phacochoerus aethiopicus (21902 21903 21904 21958 208786 208787) | |
| Holocene | Cote D'Ivoire | Phacochoerus aethiopicus (21692) |