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Long-nosed peccary

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Long-nosed peccary
Temporal range: Late Pleistocene
Skeleton at the Texas Memorial Museum in Austin, Texas
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Tayassuidae
Genus: Mylohyus
Species:
M. nasutus
Binomial name
Mylohyus nasutus
Leidy, 1868

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 

Description

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The long-nosed peccary was about 0.75 metres (2.5 ft) in height and 67 kilograms (148 lb) in weight.[2] It had an elongated face, long, thin legs and dewclaws.[1]: 21 

Habitat and distribution

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During the last glacial, long-nosed peccaries, sensu lato, were distributed throughout southeastern 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. Mylohyus nasutus, if considered to be a different species than M. fossilis, occupied the western part of this range, but their classification as separate species is disputed.[1]: 22–23  According to Lundelius, these species or forms co-occur in the Cumberland Cave deposits in Maryland.[3]: 34 

Ecology and behavior

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Unlike the flat-headed peccary, Platygonus compressus, the long-nosed peccary was probably a solitary animal and did not frequent caves.[4]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Nye, April Season (2007). Pleistocene Peccaries from Guy Wilson Cave, Sullivan County, Tennessee (MS thesis). East Tennessee State University. Paper 2115. Retrieved 18 July 2024 – via Electronic Theses and Dissertations.
  2. ^ Mendoza, M.; Janis, C. M.; Palmqvist, P. (2006). "Estimating the body mass of extinct ungulates: a study on the use of multiple regression". Journal of Zoology. 270 (1): 90–101. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.2006.00094.x.
  3. ^ Lundelius, Jr., E.L. (1961). "Mylohyus nasutus: Long-nosed Peccary of the Texas Pleistocene". Bulletin of the Texas Memorial Museum. 1. Retrieved 18 July 2024 – via Texas ScholarWorks, The University of Texas at Austin.
  4. ^ Tankersley, Kenneth B. (2011). "Evaluating the Co-occurrence of Platygonus compressus and Mylohyus nasutus at Sheriden Cave, Wyandot County, Ohio" (PDF). Current Research in the Pleistocene. 28: 185–187. Retrieved 18 July 2024 – via Pleistocene Archives, Center for the Study of the First Americans, College of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University.