Kolpochoerus

Kolpochoerus Temporal range: Zanclean to Pleistocene
Kolpochoerus limnetes skull
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Family:	Suidae
Genus:	Kolpochoerus van Hoepen and van Hoepen, 1932
Species
see text

Kolpochoerus is an extinct genus of the pig family Suidae related to the modern-day genera Hylochoerus and Potamochoerus. It is believed that most of them inhabited African forests, as opposed to the Bushpig and Red River Hog that inhabit open brush and savannas. There are currently 8 recognized species.

Species

In taxonomic order:

• Genus †Kolpochoerus
  • K. deheinzelini — Chad, Ethiopia (Early Pliocene)
  • K. afarensis - East Africa (Pliocene)
  • K. cookei - Ethiopia (Late Pliocene)
  • K. heseloni - East Africa (Plio-Pleistocene)
  • K. olduvaiensis - East Africa (Pleistocene)
  • K. majus - East Africa (Pleistocene)
  • K. phacochoeroides - Morocco (Late Pliocene)
  • K. paiceae - South Africa (Pleistocene)

References

• THOMAS, P. 1884. Recherches stratigraphiques et paléontologiques sur quelques formations d’eau douce de l’Algérie. Mémoires de la Société géologique de France, 3ème série, 3, 1–50. ISSN 0078-8554 Palaeont. afr. (December 2004) 40: 69–83 83
• New skulls of Kolpochoerus phacochoeroides (Suidae: Mammalia) from the late Pliocene of Ahl al Oughlam, Morocco Denis Geraads UPR 2147 du CNRS, 44 rue de l’Amiral Mouchez, 75014 PARIS, France Received 10 August 2004. Accepted 20 December 2004.