Long-nosed peccary Temporal range: Late
Pleistocene
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Long-nosed peccary skeleton at the Texas Memorial Museum in Austin, Texas | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | Tayassuidae |
Genus: | † Mylohyus |
Species: | †M. nasutus
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Binomial name | |
†Mylohyus nasutus Leidy, 1868
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The long-nosed peccary (Mylohyus nasutus) is an extinct mammal species of the peccary family (Tayassuidae). It is one of two peccary-species that existed in the US-Midwest during the last ice age. [1]
The long-nosed peccary was about 0,75 m (2,5 ft) in height and 67 kg (148 lb) in weight. [2] It had an elongated facial region and long slender legs. [3]
During the last glacial, long-nosed peccaries were distributed throughout eastern North America with concentrations in Appalachia and Florida. Most fossil localities containing this species are found in the southern and south-eastern U.S., from west Texas to Florida, and north to Pennsylvania.
Unlike the flat-headed peccary, the long-nosed peccary was probably a solitary animal and did not frequent caves. [4]
Long-nosed peccary Temporal range: Late
Pleistocene
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Long-nosed peccary skeleton at the Texas Memorial Museum in Austin, Texas | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | Tayassuidae |
Genus: | † Mylohyus |
Species: | †M. nasutus
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Binomial name | |
†Mylohyus nasutus Leidy, 1868
|
The long-nosed peccary (Mylohyus nasutus) is an extinct mammal species of the peccary family (Tayassuidae). It is one of two peccary-species that existed in the US-Midwest during the last ice age. [1]
The long-nosed peccary was about 0,75 m (2,5 ft) in height and 67 kg (148 lb) in weight. [2] It had an elongated facial region and long slender legs. [3]
During the last glacial, long-nosed peccaries were distributed throughout eastern North America with concentrations in Appalachia and Florida. Most fossil localities containing this species are found in the southern and south-eastern U.S., from west Texas to Florida, and north to Pennsylvania.
Unlike the flat-headed peccary, the long-nosed peccary was probably a solitary animal and did not frequent caves. [4]