Prolistriodon

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Prolistriodon
Temporal range: Burdigalian
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Suidae
Subfamily: Listriodontinae
Genus: Prolistriodon
Species:
P. smyrnensis
Binomial name
Prolistriodon smyrnensis
Pickford et. al., 2020

Prolistriodon is an extinct genus of listriodontine suid that lived in Anatolia during the Burdigalian stage of the Neogene period.

Distribution

Prolistriodon smyrnensis is known from Sabuncubeli, a site belonging to the Soma Formation of Turkey. [1]

References

  1. Pickford, Martin; Kaya, Tanju; Tarhan, Erhan; Erylmaz, Derya; Mayda, Serdar (2020). "Small early Miocene listriodont suid (Artiodactyla: Mammalia) from Sabuncubeli (Manisa, SW Anatolia), Turkey". Fossil Imprint. 76 (2): 325–337. doi: 10.37520/fi.2020.026 . ISSN   2533-4069 . Retrieved 24 June 2025.