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The status of Sus giganteus Falconer & Cautley, 1847 (Mammalia: Suinae) from the Indian Subcontinent

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2007

Martin Pickford
Martin Pickford
Affiliation:
Collège de France, 11, Place M. Berthelot, 75005, Paris, France, and Laboratoire de Paléontologie, UMR 8569 du CNRS, 8, rue Buffon, 75005, Paris, France; e-mail: pickford@mnhn.fr
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Abstract

A re-examination of the lectotype of Sus giganteus Falconer & Cautley, 1847, reveals that it is a suine, as originally thought by its discoverers, and not a tetraconodont as recently published. It may belong to the genus Propotamochoerus as proposed by Azzaroli in 1989. This reassessment radically modifies tetraconodont systematics published recently by Van der Made (1999).

Keywords

biogeographybiostratigraphyevolutionmorphologysystematics
Type
Research Article
Information
Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 92 , Issue 1 , March 2001 , pp. 39 - 42
Copyright
Royal Society of Edinburgh 2001

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