Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Tayassuidae
Full reference: A. Mones. 1974. Nueva especie de pecarí fósil (Platygonus) del Estado de Jalisco. Anales Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (7)3(51):119-128
Belongs to Platygonus according to A. Mones 1974
Sister taxa: Platygonus bicalcaratus, Platygonus brachirostris, Platygonus chapadmalensis, Platygonus cinctus, Platygonus compressus, Platygonus kraglievichi, Platygonus marplatensis, Platygonus oregonensis, Platygonus pearcei, Platygonus rex, Platygonus scagliae, Platygonus setiger, Platygonus texanus, Platygonus vetus, Platygonus wagneri, Antaodon cinctus
Type specimen: 1320-1321 del Departamento de Prehistoria, del Ins tituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia. Its type locality is Zacoalco, Lake Chapala, which is in a Pleistocene terrestrial horizon in Mexico.
Ecology: ground dwelling browser-grazer
Distribution: found only at Zacoalco, Lake Chapala
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