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Lopholistriodon

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Extinct genus of mammals

Lopholistriodon
Temporal range: 15.97–11.608 Ma PreꞒ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Suidae
Subfamily: Listriodontinae
Tribe: Namachoerini
Genus: Lopholistriodon
Pickford & Wilkinson 1975
Type species
Lopholistriodon kidogosana
Pickford & Wilkinson 1975
Species
  • L. juba?
  • L. kidogosana
  • L. pickfordi

Lopholistriodon was an extinct genus of even-toed ungulates that existed during the Miocene in Africa.

It was among the earliest and smallest member of the Listriodontinae. One species, Lopholistriodon moruoroti, has been reassigned to the related Namachoerus.

References

  1. "Fossilworks: Lopholistriodon". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
  2. "PBDB". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 2017-03-17.
  3. Paleontologia i Evolució Volumes 26-29. L'Institut. 1993.
  4. Prothero, Donald R. (2007). The Evolution of Artiodactyls. Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 144. ISBN 9780801887352.
Genera of peccaries, pigs and their extinct allies
Suina
Suina
Suoidea
Doliochoeridae
Doliochoerinae
Orycterochoerinae
Sanitheriidae
Suidae
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Tayassuidae
Suidae
Suidae
Cainochoerinae
Hyotheriinae
Listriodontinae
Kubanochoerini
Listriodontini
Namachoerini
Suinae
Suini
Potamochoerini
Hippohyini
Phacochoerini
Babyrousini
Tetraconodontinae
Taxon identifiers
Lopholistriodon


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