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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	42416	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=42416

Rank

genus (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Artiodactyla : Suidae : Sus

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Synapsida	Osborn 1903
-	Therapsida
infraorder	Cynodontia
-	Epicynodontia	Hopson and Kitching 2001
infraorder	Eucynodontia	Kemp 1982
-	Probainognathia	Hopson 1990
-	Mammaliamorpha	Rowe 1988
-	Mammaliaformes	Rowe 1988
class	Mammalia	Linnaeus 1758
subclass	Tribosphenida
infraclass	Eutheria
order	Ungulata
order	Artiodactyla	Owen 1848
superfamily	Suoidea	Gray 1821
family	Suidae	Gray 1821
subfamily	Suinae	Gray 1821
genus	Sus	Linnaeus 1758

Common Name

pig

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Sus	genus	belongs to Bestiae	stated without evidence	Linnaeus, 1758
Sus	genus	belongs to Suina	stated without evidence	Gray, 1825
Sus	genus	belongs to Artiodactyla	stated without evidence	Owen, 1848
Sus	genus	belongs to Pachydermata	stated without evidence	Leidy, 1860
Sus	genus	belongs to Suinae	stated without evidence	Hay, 1902
Sus	genus	belongs to Suidae	stated without evidence	Leakey, 1943
Sus	genus	belongs to Suidae	implied	Carroll, 1988
Sus	genus	belongs to Suidae	stated without evidence	Capasso Barbato and Gliozzi, 1995
Sus	genus	belongs to Suini	stated without evidence	McKenna and Bell, 1997
Sus	genus	belongs to Suidae	stated without evidence	Thewissen et al., 2001
Sus	genus	belongs to Suinae	stated with evidence	Funk et al., 2007
Sus	genus	belongs to Suidae	stated without evidence	Agnarsson and May-Collado, 2008

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

11 (61%)

First Recorded Appearance

23.0 - 11.6 Ma
Miocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Artiodactyla)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

omnivore (based on Suidae)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

C. Linnaeus. 1758. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Editio Decima 1:1-824

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Sus antediluvianus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Sus barbatus species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Bearded Pig	2	0.13 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Sus bucculentus species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Vietnam Warty Pig			0 Ma Extant
Sus cebifrons species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Visayan Warty Pig			0 Ma Extant
Sus celebensis species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Sulawesi Pig			0 Ma Extant
Sus cristatus species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Sus giganteus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	3.60 Ma Pliocene	3.60 Ma Pliocene
Sus hysudricus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	3.60 Ma Pliocene	3.60 Ma Pliocene
Sus larvatus species	listed (PBDB)		2	0.01 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Sus palaeochoerus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Sus philippensis species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Philippine Warty Pig			0 Ma Extant
Sus pusillus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Sus scrofa species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Wild Boar	100	16.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Sus sivalensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	3.60 Ma Pliocene	3.60 Ma Pliocene
Sus verrucosus species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Javan Warty Pig			0 Ma Extant
Sus vittatus species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Banded Pig			0 Ma Extant
Sus waylandi ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		20	23.0 Ma Miocene	5.33 Ma Miocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1758	Sus Linnaeus p. 49
1825	Sus Gray p. 342
1848	Sus Owen p. 139
1860	Sus Leidy p. 108
1902	Sus Hay p. 661
1943	Sus Leakey p. 60

Year	Name and Author
1988	Sus Carroll
1995	Sus Capasso Barbato and Gliozzi p. 248
1997	Sus McKenna and Bell p. 395
2001	Sus Thewissen et al. p. suppl.
2007	Sus Funk et al. p. 429
2008	Sus Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 974 figs. FIg. 5

References

Linnaeus C. , Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Editio Decima 1, 1-824 doi:10.5962/bhl.title.542

Gray J. E. An outline of an attempt at the disposition of Mammalia into Tribes and Families, with a list of genera apparently appertaining to each Tribe, Annals of Philosophy, new series 10, 337-344

Owen R. Description of teeth and portions of jaws of two extinct Anthracotherioid quadrupeds (Hyopotamus vectianus and Hyop. bovinus) discovered by the Marchioness of Hastings in the Eocene deposits on the NW coast of the Isle of Wight: with an attempt to develope Cuvier's idea of the Classification of Pachyderms by the number of their toes, Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 4, 103-141

Leidy J. Description of Vertebrate Fossils, Post-Pleiocene Fossils of South-Carolina, 99-122

Hay O. P. (1902) , Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 179, 1-868

Leakey L. S. B. (1943) New fossil Suidae from shungura, Omo, Journal of The East Africa Natural History Society 17, 45-61

Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698

Capasso Barbato L., Gliozzi E. (1995) Biochronological and palaeogeographical implications of a well-balanced late Middle Pleistocene fauna from Quisiana-Certosa (Capri, Southern Italy), Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana 34 2, 235-261

McKenna M. C., Bell S. K. (1997) , Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level, 1-640

Thewissen J. G. M, Williams E. M., et al (2001) Skeletons of terrestrial cetaceans and the relationship of whales to artiodactyls, Nature 413, 277-281

Funk S. M., Verma S. K., et al (2007) The pygmy hog is a unique genus: 19th century taxonomists got it right first time round, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 45 2, 427-436

Agnarsson I., May-Collado L. J. (2008) The phylogeny of Cetartiodactyla: The importance of dense taxon sampling, missing data, and the remarkable promise of cytochrome b to provide reliable species-level phylogenies, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 48, 964-985

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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