Named By: | Hopwood in 1926 |
Time Period: | Late Pliocene to Early Pleistocene |
Location: | Africa, particularly Eastern countries such as Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania, but also known from more distant African countries |
Size: | About 1.5 meters long |
Diet: | Omnivore |
Fossil(s): | Multiple specimens numbering in the hundreds |
Classification: | | Chordata | Mammalia | Artiodactyla | Suidae | |
Also known as: | | Tapinochoerus | |
Metridiochoerus is an extinct genus in the pig family indigenous to the Pliocene and Pleistocene of Africa. It is also known as the giant warthog.