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Chleuastochoerus

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Chleuastochoerus
Skeleton on display at the National Natural History Museum of China
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Suidae
Subfamily: Hyotheriinae
Genus: Chleuastochoerus
Pearson, 1928
Species
  • C. stehlini Schlosser, 1903
  • C. tuvensis Vislobokova, 2009
Skull, Hong Kong Science Museum

Chleuastochoerus is an extinct genus in the pig family that lived in the Miocene and Pliocene[1] in Russia[2] and Eastern Asia.

References

  1. ^ Pickford, M. 1993. Old World suoid systematics, phylogeny, biogeography, and biostratigraphy. Paleont. Evol., 26-27:237-269
  2. ^ Vislobokova, I. A. (2009). "The first record of Chleuastochoerus (Suidae, Artiodactyla) in Russia". Paleontological Journal. 43 (6): 686–698. doi:10.1134/S0031030109060136. S2CID 86137956.