''Sus strozzi'', or Strozzi's pig, was a

suid The Unix access rights flags setuid and setgid (short for ''set user identity'' and ''set group identity'') allow users to run an executable with the file system permissions of the executable's owner or group respectively and to change behaviour ...

native to the

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region of

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. It was more ancient than the

boar The wild boar (''Sus scrofa''), also known as the wild swine, common wild pig, Eurasian wild pig, or simply wild pig, is a suid native to much of Eurasia and North Africa, and has been introduced to the Americas and Oceania. The species is no ...

, and was eventually displaced by the latter when it entered Europe during the start of the

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, 1 Mya.

Description

Strozzi's pig was larger than the modern day wild boar. A skeleton from a young specimen indicates an animal of , while incomplete remains from an adult indicate an animal with a head-and-body length of . One recently found fossil was a jawbone from a male, much larger than the jawbone of any modern day species of ''Sus''. It was possibly adapted to a swamp environment, and may have been ancestral to the modern

Javan warty pig The Javan warty pig (''Sus verrucosus''), also called Javan wild pig, is an even-toed ungulate in the family Suidae. It is endemic to the Indonesian islands Java and Bawean, and is considered extinct on Madura. It is listed as Endangered on the ...

.Kurtén, Björn (1968). Pleistocene mammals of Europe. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. pp. 153-155

References

External links

Reconstruction at AmSturDam - Genealogie & Paleontologie
{{Taxonbar, from=Q7647453 Sus (genus) Pleistocene even-toed ungulates Prehistoric Suidae Prehistoric mammals of Europe Pliocene even-toed ungulates Fossil taxa described in 1881 Mammals described in 1881