The recently published model of evolution and biogeography and the resulting classification of the Tetraconodontinae (Van der Made 1999) were criticised by Pickford (2001) on eight points. It was claimed that Conohyus giganteus is a suine, and that this ‘radically modifies tetraconodont systematics’. However, Pickford failed to demonstrate that the type specimen is a suine, and even if it were a suine, this would affect only one of over twenty species names; not a radical change of the proposed evolutionary model.