Prolistriodon

Prolistriodon
Temporal range: Burdigalian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Suidae
Subfamily: Listriodontinae
Genus: Prolistriodon
Species:
P. smyrnensis
Binomial name
Prolistriodon smyrnensis
Pickford et. al., 2020

Prolistriodon is an extinct genus of listriodontine suid that lived in Anatolia during the Burdigalian stage of the Neogene period.

Distribution

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Prolistriodon smyrnensis is known from Sabuncubeli, a site belonging to the Soma Formation of Turkey.[1]

References

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  1. ^ Pickford, Martin; Kaya, Tanju; Tarhan, Erhan; Erylmaz, Derya; Mayda, Serdar (2020). "Small early Miocene listriodont suid (Artiodactyla: Mammalia) from Sabuncubeli (Manisa, SW Anatolia), Turkey". Fossil Imprint. 76 (2): 325–337. doi:10.37520/fi.2020.026. ISSN 2533-4069. Retrieved 24 June 2025.