Lopholistriodon was an extinct genus of even-toed ungulates that existed during the Miocene in Africa.[1][2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Suidae |
| Subfamily: | †Listriodontinae |
| Tribe: | †Namachoerini |
| Genus: | †Lopholistriodon Pickford & Wilkinson 1975 |
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| †Lopholistriodon kidogosana Pickford & Wilkinson 1975
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It was among the earliest and smallest member of the Listriodontinae.[3] One species, Lopholistriodon moruoroti, has been reassigned to the related Namachoerus.[4]
References
edit- ^ "Fossilworks: Lopholistriodon". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
- ^ "PBDB". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 2017-03-17.
- ^ Paleontologia i Evolució Volumes 26-29. L'Institut. 1993.
- ^ Prothero, Donald R. (2007). The Evolution of Artiodactyls. Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 144. ISBN 9780801887352.
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