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
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore-omnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of United States (6: California, Louisiana collections)
Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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