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Platygonus wagneri (Chacoan peccary)
Taxonomy
Platygonus (Parachoerus) carlesi wagneri was named by Rusconi (1930). It is extant.
It was recombined as Parachoerus carlesi wagneri by Kraglievich and Rusconi (1931); it was recombined as Platygonus wagneri by Rusconi (1948); it was recombined as Catagonus wagneri by Wetzel (1975), Wright (1998), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008) and Gasparini (2013); it was recombined as Parachoerus wagneri by Dutra et al. (2017).
It was recombined as Parachoerus carlesi wagneri by Kraglievich and Rusconi (1931); it was recombined as Platygonus wagneri by Rusconi (1948); it was recombined as Catagonus wagneri by Wetzel (1975), Wright (1998), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008) and Gasparini (2013); it was recombined as Parachoerus wagneri by Dutra et al. (2017).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1930 | Platygonus (Parachoerus) carlesi wagneri Rusconi |
| 1931 | Parachoerus carlesi wagneri Kraglievich and Rusconi |
| 1948 | Platygonus wagneri Rusconi |
| 1975 | Catagonus wagneri Wetzel |
| 1998 | Catagonus wagneri Wright p. 396 |
| 2008 | Catagonus wagneri Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 974 figs. Fig. 5 |
| 2013 | Catagonus wagneri Gasparini p. 58 |
| 2017 | Parachoerus wagneri Dutra et al. p. 354 |
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Platygonus wagneri Rusconi 1930 [Chacoan peccary]
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| R. P. Dutra et al. 2017 | Parachoerus wagneri differs from Parachoerus carlesi by having high crowned bunodont teeth [referred as Bzygodont^ by some authors (Gasparini 2007; Gasparini et al. 2009, 2013; Prothero and Grenader 2012)], a mesodont crown height, a small upper canine fossa, and a sagittal crest extending to the frontals. |
Measurements
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| Source: g = genus, f = family, o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Nowak 1991, Hendy et al. 2009, Lillegraven 1979, Nowak 1999, Carroll 1988, MacFadden and Cerling 1996 | |||||
Collections
No collection or age range data are available