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Hesperhyinae
Taxonomy
Hesperhyinae was named by Prothero (2015).
It was assigned to Tayassuidae by Prothero (2015) and Prothero (2021).
It was assigned to Tayassuidae by Prothero (2015) and Prothero (2021).
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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.
Subfm. †Hesperhyinae Prothero 2015
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G. †Hesperhys Douglass 1903
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†Hesperhys antiquus Marsh 1870
Invalid names: Pediohyus Loomis 1910 [synonym]
Diagnosis
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D. R. Prothero 2015 | As Wright (1991) discovered, the hesperhyines have a distinctive morphology in their nasal-choanal region (Fig. 2). Instead of the simple broad arcuate choanal margin of most mammals (Fig. 2A), the pterygoids fuse together and push the active choanal opening posteriorly to form a “neochoanal chamber”. The anterior choanal opening thus is left behind as the “plesiochoanal fossa” or “plesiochoanal chamber”. All hesperhyine fossils that adequately preserve this region have this unique plesiochoanal chamber, medially fused pterygoid bones, large pterygoid processes on the alisphenoid, and vertical processes on the palatine bones (see Wright, 1991, 1998). |
Measurements
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References: Lillegraven 1979, Nowak 1991, Nowak 1999, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 |
Age range: base of the Harrisonian to the top of the Messinian or 24.80000 to 5.33300 Ma
Collections (40 total)
Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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Arikareean | USA (Wyoming) | Pediohyus ferus (17822) | |
Arikareean | USA (Oregon) | Fremdohyus osmonti (189088) Palaeochoerus socialis (180202) Thinohyus osmonti (189087) | |
early Late Arikareean | USA (Oregon) | Hesperhys sp. (170307) | |
late Late Arikareean | USA (Oregon) | Cynorca sociale (18013) | |
Chattian | USA (California) | Desmathyus sp. (11601) | |
Harrisonian | USA (Wyoming) | Lucashyus coombsae (17854) Wrightohyus yatkolai (17839) | |
Harrisonian | USA (Nebraska) | Hesperhys sp. (28043) Thinohyus siouxensis (17741) | |
Harrisonian | USA (South Dakota) | Desmathyus pinensis (17745 17747 17748 17831) | |
Aquitanian | USA (Texas) | Hesperhys sp., Cynorca sociale, Hesperhys pinensis (18663) | |
Aquitanian | USA (California) | Hesperhys sp. (19485) | |
Burdigalian | USA (Delaware) | Cynorca sociale (18579) | |
Early/Lower Hemingfordian | USA (Nebraska) | Wrightohyus yatkolai (17891) | |
Early/Lower Hemingfordian | USA (New Jersey) | Perchoerus antiquus (17910) | |
Hemingfordian | USA (Colorado) | Hesperhys sp. (17965) | |
Hemingfordian | USA (Florida) | Floridachoerus olseni (18597) | |
Hemingfordian | USA (Texas) | Tayassuidae indet. (18626) | |
Hemingfordian | USA (South Dakota) | Desmathyus pinensis (17912) | |
Hemingfordian | USA (Nebraska) | Desmathyus validus (18001) | |
Hemingfordian | USA (Nevada) | Cynorca sociale, Desmathyus pinensis, Desmathyus validus (18962) Desmathyus pinensis (18961) | |
Hemingfordian - Barstovian | USA (California) | Cynorca sociale (19478) | |
Barstovian | USA (Nevada) | Hesperhys sp. (19103) | |
Barstovian | USA (Montana) | Hesperhys vagrans (18894) | |
Barstovian | USA (California) | Hesperhys sp. (19327) Hesperhys vagrans (19356 19565 19616) | |
Early/Lower Barstovian | USA (Nebraska) | Hesperhys sp. (17955) Hesperhys vagrans (17905 17985) | |
Langhian | USA (Maryland) | Desmathyus sp. (48884) | |
Serravallian | USA (Maryland) | Hesperhys sp. (13408) | |
Messinian | USA (Virginia) | Desmathyus sp. (179732) |