Lopholistriodon

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Lopholistriodon
Temporal range: 15.97–11.608  Ma
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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. [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]

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References

  1. "Fossilworks: Lopholistriodon". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
  2. "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. 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.