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