| Sus strozzi | |
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| Skeleton at theNaturhistorisches Museum, Basel | |
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| Life reconstruction | |
Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Suidae |
| Genus: | Sus |
| Species: | †S. strozzi |
| Binomial name | |
| †Sus strozzi Forsyth Major, 1881 | |
Sus strozzi was asuid native to theMediterranean region ofEurope. It was more ancient than theboar, and was eventually displaced by the latter when it entered Europe during the start of thePleistocene, 1 Mya.[1]
Sus strozzi was larger than the modern day wild boar. A skeleton from a young specimen indicates an animal of 150 cm (4.9 ft), while incomplete remains from an adult indicate an animal with a head-and-body length of 183 cm (6.00 ft). One recently found fossil was a 35 cm (14 in) jawbone from a male, much larger than the jawbone of any modern day species ofSus.[2] It was possibly adapted to a swamp environment, and may have been ancestral to the modernJavan warty pig.[3]