Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Merycoidodontidae
PaleoDB taxon number: 355056
Full reference: C. B. Schultz and C. H. Falkenbach. 1968. The Phylogeny of the Oreodonts. Part 1: Merycoidodontinae, Eporeodontinae, and Leptaucheniinae, Three Subfamilies Of Oreodonts, With an Appendix to the Revision Of The Merycoidodontidae, and Part 2. Summary and Conclusions Concerning the Merycoidodontidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 139:1-498
Parent taxon: Genetochoerus according to C. B. Schultz and C. H. Falkenbach 1968
Sister taxa: Merycoidodon (Anomerycoidodon), Merycoidodon (Blickohyus), Merycoidodon (Merycoidodon), Merycoidodon (Otarohyus), Merycoidodon minor, Paramerycoidodon (Gregoryochoerus), Paramerycoidodon (Barbourochoerus)
Subtaxa: none
Type: Genetochoerus (Osbornohyus) geygani
Ecology: scansorial insectivore