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Platygonus ticuli

Mammalia - Tayassuidae

Taxonomy
Platygonus ticuli was named by Mones (1974). Its type specimen is 1320-1321 del Departamento de Prehistoria, del Ins tituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Zacoalco, Lake Chapala, which is in a Pleistocene terrestrial horizon in Mexico.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1974Platygonus ticuli Mones p. 122 figs. Figures 6 - 10

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
RankNameAuthor
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—Boreoeutheria
—Laurasiatheria
—Scrotifera
—Euungulata
—Artiodactylamorpha
—Artiodactyla()
superfamilySuoidea
—Suina(Gray 1868)
familyTayassuidae
subfamilyTayassuinaePalmer 1897
tribePlatygonini
genusPlatygonus
speciesticuli

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Platygonus ticuli Mones 1974
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
A. Mones 1974Rostro delgado, apenas más corto que el cráneo cerebral (46%). Apófisis laterales del zigomático muy desarrollados (ancho máximo en línea recta 255-240 cale). Articulación cóndilo glenoidea a nivel o por encima del plano oclusal de los molariformes. Con quilla sinfisaria en la mandíbula, región angular muy desarrollada. i3 de presencia ----. Tercer lóbulo del M'3 muy poco marcado; en el M:i sencillo o complejo. Media del índice diastema mayor-serie prémolomolar superior (3 ejemplares): 60 (55-63); inferior: 62 (57-68). Metacarpianos libres; metatarsianos soldados en los 2 tercios proximales
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialo
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: ground dwellingf
Diet: browserg
Diet 2: grazerg
Reproduction: viviparoussubc
Created: 2009-01-04 10:35:33
Modified: 2009-01-04 12:35:33
Source: g = genus, f = family, o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: MacFadden and Cerling 1996, Hendy et al. 2009, Nowak 1999, Lillegraven 1979, Nowak 1991, Carroll 1988

Age range: Late/Upper Pleistocene or 0.12900 to 0.01170 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Mexico (Jalisco) Platygonus ticuli (type locality: 212360)