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Retroporcus
Temporal range: 13.65–9.7  Ma
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
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

  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.