Retroporcus
Temporal range:
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.


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