Catagonus stenocephalus

Catagonus stenocephalus
Temporal range: Mid - Late Pleistocene[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Tayassuidae
Genus: Catagonus
Species:
†C. stenocephalus
Binomial name
†Catagonus stenocephalus
(Lund in Reinhardt, 1880)[2]
Synonyms
  • Brasiliochoerus stenocephalus Rusconi, 1930
  • Dicotyles stenocephalus Lund, 1838

Brasiliochoerus stenocephalus is an extinct species of peccary that lived in South America during the Late Pleistocene. Fossils have been found in Brazil, Argentina and Bolivia.[3][4][5] It is commonly known as the narrow-headed peccary due to its long and markedly convex rostrum.[6]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Missagia was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Catagonus stenocephalus". Fossilworks.
  3. ^ Gasparini, G.M.; Kerber, L.; Oliveira, E.V. (2009). "Catagonus stenocephalus (LUND in REINHARDT, 1880) (Mammalia, Tayassuidae) in the Touro Passo Formation (Late Pleistocene), Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Taxonomic and palaeoenvironmental comments". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen. 254 (3): 261–273. doi:10.1127/0077-7749/2009/0016.
  4. ^ Parisi-Dutra, R. (January 2016). "Fossil peccaries of Late Pleistocene/Holocene (Cetartiodactyla, Tayassuidae) from underwater caves of Serra da Bodoquena (Mato Grosso do Sul State, Brazil)". Historical Biology. 29 (1): 85–92. doi:10.1080/08912963.2015.1125898. hdl:11336/54277. S2CID 131364544.
  5. ^ Lopes, R.P (2021). "The Santa Vitória Alloformation: an update on a Pleistocene fossil-rich unit in Southern Brazil". Brazilian Journal of Geology. 51 (1). doi:10.1590/2317-4889202120200065. hdl:10183/220266. S2CID 234238367.
  6. ^ Copetti, Paula Lopes (2020). "A skull of the extinct tayassuid Brasiliochoerus stenocephalus (Lund in Reinhardt, 1880) (Mammalia, Cetartiodactyla) from the Late Pleistocene of southern Brazil: morphology and taxonomy". Historical Biology. 33 (9): 1898–1910. doi:10.1080/08912963.2020.1751837. S2CID 219054991.