Biology:Lopholistriodon

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Short description: Extinct genus of mammals

Lopholistriodon
Temporal range: 15.97–11.608 Ma
Scientific classification e
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]

References

  1. "Fossilworks: Lopholistriodon". http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=42397. 
  2. "PBDB" (in en). https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=42397&is_real_user=1. 
  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. 

Wikidata ☰ Q21222814 entry