Dyseohyus Stock 1937 (peccary)

Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Tayassuidae

Full reference: C. Stock. 1937. A peccary skull from the Barstow Miocene of California. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 23(7):398-404

Parent taxon: Tayassuinae according to D. B. Wright 1998

See also Carroll 1988, McKenna and Bell 1997, Prothero 2021, Stock 1937 and Woodburne 1969

Sister taxa: Argyrohyus, Dicotyles, Mylohyini, Platygonini, Platygonus condoni, Platygonus striatus, Prosthennops, Protherohyus, Stirtonhyus, Tayassuini, Tedfordhyus

Subtaxa: Dyseohyus fricki

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Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore-omnivore

Distribution:

• Miocene of United States (6: California, Louisiana collections)

Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence

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