Conohyus

Conohyus; Temporal range: 13.65–9.7 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ 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);

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]

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". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 2017-03-08.
"conohyus eol". www.eol.com. Retrieved 2017-03-08.
"Tetraconodontinae". tolweb.org. Retrieved 2017-03-08.

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