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Retroporcus

Retroporcus was an extinct genus of even-toed ungulates that existed during the Miocene in Europe, the Indian subcontinent, and Turkey.

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Retroporcus
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Placentalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Suidae
Subfamily: †Tetraconodontinae
Genus: †Retroporcus
Pickford and Laurent, 2014
Species
  • R. complutensis Pickford and Laurent, 2014 (type)
  • R. matritensis (Golpe-Posse, 1972)1
  • R. sindiensis (Lydekker, 1884)

Retroporcus was an extinct genus of even-toed ungulates that existed during the Miocene in Europe, the Indian subcontinent, and Turkey.2

References

References

  1. Pickford, Martin (2016). "Biochronology of European Miocene Tetraconodontinae (Suidae, Artiodactyla, Mammalia) flowing from recent revision of the Subfamily". Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien. 118A: 175–244. ISSN 0255-0091. JSTOR 43923095.
  2. Pickford, M.; Laurent, Y. (30 June 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. doi:10.3989/egeol.41261.262.