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METRIDIOCHOERUS
(met-rid-oh-koe-rus)
meaning: "Frightful pig"
Metridiochoerus
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 |
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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.

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