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The status of Conohyus giganteus (Nyanzachoerini, Tetraconodontinae, Suidae) – Reply to Pickford (2001)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2007

J. van der Made
J. van der Made
Affiliation:
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, c. José Gutiérrez Abascal 2, 28006 Madrid, Spain. e-mail: mcnjv538@mncn.csic.es
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Abstract

The recently published model of evolution and biogeography and the resulting classification of the Tetraconodontinae (Van der Made 1999) were criticised by Pickford (2001) on eight points. It was claimed that Conohyus giganteus is a suine, and that this ‘radically modifies tetraconodont systematics’. However, Pickford failed to demonstrate that the type specimen is a suine, and even if it were a suine, this would affect only one of over twenty species names; not a radical change of the proposed evolutionary model.

Keywords

Biogeographyevolutionmorphologymorphometrics
Type
Research Article
Information
Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 94 , Issue 2 , June 2003 , pp. 157 - 167
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 2003

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