Long-nosed peccary Temporal range: Late Pleistocene
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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 went extinct at the end of the Rancholabrean North American Land Mammal Age.[1]: 21