Lopholistriodon
Appearance
Lopholistriodon Temporal range:
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Scientific 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
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Lopholistriodon was an extinct genus of even-toed ungulates that existed during the Miocene in Africa.[1][2]
It was among the earliest and smallest member of the Listriodontinae.[3] One species, Lopholistriodon moruoroti, has been reassigned to the related Namachoerus.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Fossilworks: Lopholistriodon". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
- ^ "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2017-03-17.
- ^ Paleontologia i Evolució Volumes 26-29. L'Institut. 1993.
- ^ Prothero, Donald R. (2007). The Evolution of Artiodactyls. Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 144. ISBN 9780801887352.