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Megalochoerus

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Megalochoerus
Temporal range: Miocene
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Suidae
Tribe: †Kubanochoerini
Genus: †Megalochoerus
Pickford, 1993
Species
  • M. humongus Pickford, 1993 (Type species)
  • M. khinzikebirus (Wilkinson, 1976)
  • M. marymuunguae (Made, 1996)

Megalochoerus is an extinct genus of large and long-legged animals in the pig family from the Miocene of Africa.[1][2]

The suid species Kubanochoerus khinzikebirus and K. marymuunguae are now assigned to Megalochoerus.[3]

References

  1. ^ Pickford, Martin. 1993. Old world suoid systematics, phylogeny, biogeography, and biostratigraphy. Paleontologia i Evolucio. 26-27: 237-269.
  2. ^ M. Pickford. 2007. Suidae and hippopotamidae from the Middle Miocene of Kipsaraman, Kenya and other sites in East Africa. Palaeontological Research 11(1):85-105
  3. ^ Bishop LC (2010) Suoidea. In: Werdelin L, Sanders WJ, editors. Cenozoic Mammals of Africa. Berkeley: University of California Press. pp. 821–842.
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