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    mitochondrial DNA from Platygonus found that all living peccaries are more closely related to each other than they are to Platygonus. The estimated divergence...
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    Platygonus compressus, the flat-headed peccary, is an extinct mammal species from the Tayassuidae family that lived in North and South America during the...
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    two extinct peccaries, Mylohyus and Platygonus, were widespread across North America (and in the case of Platygonus, South America), but became extinct...
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    Cumberland Cave deposits in Maryland.: 34  Unlike the flat-headed peccary, Platygonus compressus, the long-nosed peccary was probably a solitary animal and...
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    from the region by competition with the now-extinct flat-headed peccary (Platygonus compressus) and long-nosed peccary (Mylohyus nasutus). The first records...
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  • monesi Pronothrotherium Uruguayurus Cardiatherium talicei Uruguayodon Platygonus sp. Phorusrhacinae (possibly Devincenzia) Homotherini - previously assigned...
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    the 19th century was the 1877 discovery of five Pleistocene peccaries (Platygonus compressus) in an Ionia County peat bog located near the town of Belding...
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    pacifica) (H) Several peccary (Tayassuidae) spp. Flat-headed peccary (Platygonus) (H) Long-nosed peccary (Mylohyus) (H) Collared peccary (Dicotyles tajacu;...
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    archeological sites of North America. In comparison, Mammut and the peccary Platygonus were far less frequently associated with human sites, potentially suggesting...
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    with Paleo Indian artifacts and the remains of the flat-headed peccary (Platygonus compressus), giant short-faced bear (Arctodus simus), and giant beaver...
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