Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Tayassuidae
Full reference: C. L. Gazin. 1938. Fossil peccary remains from the upper Pliocene of Idaho. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 28(2):41-48
Belongs to Platygonus according to D. R. Prothero 2021
See also Dutra et al. 2017, Gazin 1938, Kurten and Anderson 1980 and Wright 1998
Sister taxa: Platygonus bicalcaratus, Platygonus brachirostris, Platygonus chapadmalensis, Platygonus cinctus, Platygonus compressus, Platygonus kraglievichi, Platygonus marplatensis, Platygonus oregonensis, Platygonus rex, Platygonus scagliae, Platygonus setiger, Platygonus striatus, Platygonus texanus, Platygonus ticuli, Platygonus vetus, Antaodon cinctus
Type specimen: USNM 13800, a skeleton (a nearly complete adult skeleton,). Its type locality is Platygonus pearcei Quarry, which is in a Blancan terrestrial horizon in the Glenns Ferry Formation of Idaho.
Ecology: ground dwelling browser-grazer
Distribution:
• Blancan of United States (3: Idaho, Nevada, Washington collections)
• Pliocene of United States (1: Idaho)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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