Prosthennops kernensis Colbert 1938 (peccary)

Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Tayassuidae

Full reference: E. H. Colbert. 1938. Pliocene peccaries from the Pacific Coast region of North America. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 487(6):241-269

Belongs to Prosthennops according to E. H. Colbert 1938

See also Wright 1998

Sister taxa: Prosthennops serus, Prosthennops ziegleri

Type specimen: Its type locality is Kern River, which is in a Clarendonian terrestrial horizon in the Kern River Formation of California

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore-omnivore

Distribution: found only at Kern River

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