Southern African Tetraconodontinae: recent discoveries

Tetraconodont suids are in general rather poorly represented in Southern Africa, except at Langebaanweg, Cape Province and the Chiwondo Beds, Malawi. We here describe material from two localities in Namibia and one in South Africa in order to fill out the fossil record of this subfamily of artiodact...

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Published inCommunications of the Geological Survey of Namibia Vol. 21; pp. 59 - 81
Main Authors Pickford, Martin, Gommery, Dominique, Kgasi, Lazarus, Vilakazi, Nonhlanhla, Senut, Brigitte, Mocke, Helke
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Geological Survey 2019
Subjects
Continental interfaces, environment
Sciences of the Universe
Suidae
Southern Africa
Pliocene
Pleistocene
Biochronology
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Summary:Tetraconodont suids are in general rather poorly represented in Southern Africa, except at Langebaanweg, Cape Province and the Chiwondo Beds, Malawi. We here describe material from two localities in Namibia and one in South Africa in order to fill out the fossil record of this subfamily of artiodactyls in the subcontinent. The oldest specimens (Nyanzachoerus sp. cf jaegeri) are from Kaukausib Fontein, Namibia (ca 4-6 Ma), the next oldest (Gerontochoerus koobiforaensis) are from Brad Pit 'A', Bolt's Farm, South Africa (ca 3.7 Ma) and the youngest (Gerontochoerus scotti) are from Ekuma Rhino Site, northern Namibia (ca 3.2 Ma).
ISSN:1026-2954