Biology:Conohyus

Conohyus; Temporal range: 13.65–9.7 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
	A Conohyus mandible
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Family:	Suidae
Subfamily:	†Tetraconodontinae
Genus:	†Conohyus; Pilgrim, 1926
Species
	C. doati (Lartet, 1851); C. simorrensis (Lartet, 1851) (type);

Short description: Extinct genus of mammals

Conohyus was an extinct genus of suid that existed during the Miocene in Europe and in Asia.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Taxonomy

Conohyus sindiensis was reassigned to the genus Retroporcus by Pickford and Laurent (2014).^[1]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 M. Pickford; Y. Laurent (2014). "Valorisation of palaeontological collections: nomination of a lectotype for Conohyus simorrensis (Lartet, 1851), Villefranche d'Astarac, France, and description of a new genus of tetraconodont". Estudios Geológicos. 70 (1): e002.
↑ "Fossilworks: Conohyus". http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=188944.
↑ "conohyus eol" (in en). http://eol.org/pages/7681/details.
↑ "Tetraconodontinae". http://tolweb.org/Tetraconodontinae/51805.

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Conohyus Temporal range: 13.65–9.7 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓

A Conohyus mandible
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Family:	Suidae
Subfamily:	†Tetraconodontinae
Genus:	†Conohyus Pilgrim, 1926
Species
C. doati (Lartet, 1851) C. simorrensis (Lartet, 1851) (type)