Sus strozzi

Sus strozzi was a suid native to the Mediterranean region of Europe. It was more ancient than the boar, and was eventually displaced by the latter when it entered Europe during the start of the Pleistocene, 1 Mya.^[1]

Sus strozzi Temporal range: Pliocene–Early Pleistocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Skeleton at the Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel
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

Description

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 of Sus.^[2] It was possibly adapted to a swamp environment, and may have been ancestral to the modern Javan warty pig.^[3]