Tetraconodon Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | Suidae |
Subfamily: | † Tetraconodontinae |
Genus: | †
Tetraconodon Falconer, 1868 |
Type species | |
†Tetraconodon magnum
Falconer, 1868
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Species | |
Tetraconodon was an extinct genus of even-toed ungulates that existed during the middle and late Miocene in Asia ( India, Pakistan, Thailand, Myanmar). [2] [3] [4]
The last two pairs of premolars of Tetraconodon were extremely large, while the first two premolars were small, a unique characteristic of tetraconodontinae not found in other suids. [1]
Tetraconodon magnum was largest species, while T. malensis is the smallest. [5] Originally known from only the oversized premolars, T. magnum was once believed to have reached sizes comparable to that of a hippopotamus or rhinoceros. [6] Once more material was recovered, such size estimates were invalidated, but it was nonetheless a large suid.
Tetraconodon Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | Suidae |
Subfamily: | † Tetraconodontinae |
Genus: | †
Tetraconodon Falconer, 1868 |
Type species | |
†Tetraconodon magnum
Falconer, 1868
| |
Species | |
Tetraconodon was an extinct genus of even-toed ungulates that existed during the middle and late Miocene in Asia ( India, Pakistan, Thailand, Myanmar). [2] [3] [4]
The last two pairs of premolars of Tetraconodon were extremely large, while the first two premolars were small, a unique characteristic of tetraconodontinae not found in other suids. [1]
Tetraconodon magnum was largest species, while T. malensis is the smallest. [5] Originally known from only the oversized premolars, T. magnum was once believed to have reached sizes comparable to that of a hippopotamus or rhinoceros. [6] Once more material was recovered, such size estimates were invalidated, but it was nonetheless a large suid.