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Protherohyus brachydontus
Taxonomy
Desmathyus brachydontus was named by Dalquest and Mooser (1980). Its type specimen is TMM 41685-13, a tooth (lower third molar, probably of a male), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Rancho El Ocote (Basal), which is in a Hemphillian fluvial claystone/sandstone in the Rancho Viejo Beds Formation of Mexico.
It was recombined as Catagonus brachydontus by Wright (1989) and Wright (1998); it was recombined as Protherohyus brachydontus by Dutra et al. (2017) and Prothero (2021).
It was recombined as Catagonus brachydontus by Wright (1989) and Wright (1998); it was recombined as Protherohyus brachydontus by Dutra et al. (2017) and Prothero (2021).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1980 | Desmathyus brachydontus Dalquest and Mooser p. 15 |
| 1989 | Catagonus brachydontus Wright |
| 1998 | Catagonus brachydontus Wright p. 397 |
| 2017 | Protherohyus brachydontus Dutra et al. p. 355 |
| 2021 | Protherohyus brachydontus Prothero p. 39 |
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†Protherohyus brachydontus Dalquest and Mooser 1980
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| W. W. Dalquest and O. Mooser 1980 | A very large peccary, larger than Desmathyus pinensis Matthew, the type of the genus, and other described species. Almost exactly the size of the Blancan-age Platygonus bicalcaratus Cope. Distinguished from described species of Desmathyus by small but distinict posterior lobe of upper M3 and cusp of molars only lightly wrinkled. Readily distinguished from species of Platygonus by extremely brachydont dentition. | |
| R. P. Dutra et al. 2017 | Genus Protherohyus by monotypy |
Measurements
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| References: Nowak 1991, Nowak 1999, Hendy et al. 2009, Lillegraven 1979, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Age range: base of the Hemphillian to the top of the Irvingtonian or 10.30000 to 0.30000 Ma
Collections (17 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Clarendonian | USA (Florida) | Catagonus brachydontus (18588) | |
| Tortonian - Zanclean | USA (Florida) | Catagonus brachydontus (18548) | |
| Hemphillian | Mexico (Jalisco) | Catagonus brachydontus (189788 189790) | |
| Hemphillian | Mexico (Hidalgo) | Catagonus brachydontus (212307) | |
| Hemphillian | USA (Florida) | Catagonus brachydontus (18577) | |
| Hemphillian | Mexico (Zacatecas) | Catagonus brachydontus (212341) | |
| Hemphillian | Mexico (Guanajuato) | Catagonus brachydontus (18718) | |
| Hemphillian | Costa Rica (Puntarenas) | Protherohyus brachydontus (144596) | |
| Late/Upper Hemphillian | USA (Florida) | Catagonus brachydontus (18573 18595) | |
| Late/Upper Hemphillian | USA (Oklahoma) | Catagonus brachydontus (18076) | |
| Late/Upper Hemphillian | Mexico (Guanajuato) | Catagonus brachydontus (18713 18740) Desmathyus brachydontus (type locality: 18737) | |
| Blancan | Mexico (Hidalgo) | Catagonus brachydontus (20079) | |
| Irvingtonian | USA (Florida) | Catagonus brachydontus (18500) |