Thinohyus (Bothrolabis) osmonti Sinclair 1905 (peccary)

Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Tayassuidae

Alternative combination: Perchoerus osmonti

Full reference: W. J. Sinclair. 1905. New or Imperfectly Known Rodent and Ungulates from the John Day Series. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geology 4(6):125-143

Belongs to Thinohyus (Bothrolabis) according to W. J. Sinclair 1905

See also Fremd 1994, Hay 1930, Prothero 2009, Prothero 2016, Prothero 2021 and Wright 1998

Sister taxa: Perchoerus minor, Perchoerus nanus, Perchoerus probus

Type specimen: UCMP 393, a partial skull (Cranium and mandible). Its type locality is UCMP loc. 839, Black Rock 3, John Day Valley, which is in an Arikareean terrestrial horizon in the John Day Formation of Oregon.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore-omnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Thinohyus (Bothrolabis) osmonti in the database

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