A new species of Nyanzachoerus (Cetartiodactyla: Suidae) from the late Miocene Toros-Menalla, Chad, central Africa.

ABSTRACT: During the latest Miocene and the early Pliocene, tetraconodontine suids were the most predominant large omnivorous mammals in Africa. Yet, new species were often identified on the grounds of limited evidence, a situation impacting their value for biochronological correlations as well as for environmental and biogeographical reconstructions. The description of the most abundant known collection of craniodental remains attributed to the tetraconodontine Nyanzachoerus helps to improve this situation. These specimens were collected in the upper Miocene deposits at Toros-Ménalla, northern Chad, central Africa, by the Mission Paléoanthropologique Franco-Tchadienne. We compared them with Nyanzachoerus from eastern and southern Africa, using extant species as a reference for patterns of morpholog

SUBMITTER: Boisserie JR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4146473 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature