Family Tayassuidae Palmer 1897 (peccary)

Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Tayassuidae

Invalid subtaxa: Cynorcidae Cope 1867, Dicotylidae Gray 1868 [replaced name]

Full reference: T. S. Palmer. 1897. Notes on The Nomenclature Of Four Genera Of Tropical American Mammals. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 11:173-174

Parent taxon: Suina according to M. Spaulding et al. 2009

See also Agnarsson and May-Collado 2008, Becker et al. 2010, Boisserie et al. 2005, Boisserie et al. 2010, Carroll 1988, Cope 1867, Flower 1883, Gill 1871, Gill 1872, Gill 1873, Gregory 1910, Hulbert and Whitmore 2006, Jaekel 1911, Kurten and Anderson 1980, McKenna and Bell 1997, Nowak 1991, Palmer 1897, Pickford and Morales 1998, Prothero 2021, Scott 1940, Stinnesbeck et al. 2017, Ursing et al. 2000 and Woodburne 1969

Sister taxa: Cotylopidae, Dichodontidae, Merycopotamidae

Subtaxa: Aptenohyus Colbertchoerus Cynorca Doliochoerinae Hesperhyinae Mckennahyus Muknalia Mylohyus Perchoerus Prochoerus Prosthennops haroldcooki Simojovelhyus Tayassuinae Thinohyus Webbochoerus Woodburnehyus

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Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore-omnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Argentina (17 collections), Bolivia (5), Brazil (28), Canada (1: Saskatchewan), Colombia (2), Guatemala (3), Mexico (11), Panama (1), Peru (10), United States (160: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia), Uruguay (3), Venezuela (6)

• Blancan of Mexico (5), United States (67: Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Washington)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Argentina (1), Colombia (1), Uruguay (1), Venezuela (3)

• Pliocene of Argentina (10), Colombia (1), Mexico (1), South Africa (2), United States (4: California, Idaho, North Carolina)

• Hemphillian of Costa Rica (1), Honduras (1), Mexico (18), United States (59: Alabama, California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, Oklahoma, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Ethiopia (1), Kenya (1), South Africa (1), United States (1: Florida)

• Miocene of Argentina (1), Canada (2: Saskatchewan), China (2), Kenya (3), Mexico (3), Panama (5), Spain (1), United States (167: Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Virginia, Washington, Wyoming)

• Harrisonian of United States (10: Nebraska, Oregon, South Dakota, Wyoming)

• Arikareean of Panama (1), United States (10: California, Montana, Nebraska, Oregon, Wyoming)

• Oligocene of Canada (1: Saskatchewan), Mexico (1), Pakistan (1), United States (30: California, Colorado, Florida, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Washington)

• Eocene to Oligocene of Mexico (1)

• Eocene of China (1), United States (8: Colorado, Nebraska, South Dakota, Wyoming)

Total: 674 collections including 757 occurrences

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