Megalochoerus

Megalochoerus; Temporal range: Miocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Family:	Suidae
Tribe:	†Kubanochoerini
Genus:	†Megalochoerus; Pickford, 1993
Species
	M. humongus Pickford, 1993 (Type species); M. khinzikebirus (Wilkinson, 1976); M. marymuunguae (Made, 1996);

Megalochoerus is an extinct genus of large and long-legged animals in the pig family from the Miocene of Africa.[1][2]

The suid species Kubanochoerus khinzikebirus and K. marymuunguae are now assigned to Megalochoerus.[3]

References

Pickford, Martin. 1993. Old world suoid systematics, phylogeny, biogeography, and biostratigraphy. Paleontologia i Evolucio. 26-27: 237-269.
M. Pickford. 2007. Suidae and hippopotamidae from the Middle Miocene of Kipsaraman, Kenya and other sites in East Africa. Palaeontological Research 11(1):85-105
Bishop LC (2010) Suoidea. In: Werdelin L, Sanders WJ, editors. Cenozoic Mammals of Africa. Berkeley: University of California Press. pp. 821–842.

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