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Platygonus compressus

Franklin County, Nebraska, USA

Platygonus compressus

Franklin County, Nebraska, USA

Platygonus compressus

Franklin County, Nebraska, USA

Description

Platygonus ("flat head" in reference to the straight shape of the forehead) is an extinct genus of herbivorous peccaries of the family Tayassuidae, endemic to North and South America from the Miocene through Pleistocene epochs (10.3 million to 11,000 years ago), existing for about 10.289 million years.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platygonus, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4835316	https://www.gbif.org/species/4835316
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	42437	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=42437

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Artiodactyla : Tayassuidae : Platygonus

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Artiodactyla : Tayassuidae : Platygonus

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Synapsida	Osborn 1903
-	Therapsida
infraorder	Cynodontia
-	Epicynodontia	Hopson and Kitching 2001
infraorder	Eucynodontia	Kemp 1982
-	Probainognathia	Hopson 1990
-	Mammaliamorpha	Rowe 1988
-	Mammaliaformes	Rowe 1988
class	Mammalia	Linnaeus 1758
subclass	Tribosphenida
infraclass	Eutheria
order	Ungulata
order	Artiodactyla	Owen 1848
superfamily	Suoidea	Gray 1821
family	Tayassuidae	Palmer 1897
subfamily	Tayassuinae	Palmer 1897
tribe	Platygonini	Dutra et al. 2017
genus	Platygonus	Leconte 1848

Scientific Name

Platygonus Leconte, 1848

Name Published In

Mem. Amer. Acad., (N. S.) 3

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Platygonus	genus	belongs to Tayassuidae	stated without evidence	Le Conte, 1848
Platygonus	genus	belongs to Tayassuinae	stated without evidence	Hay, 1902
Platygonus	genus	belongs to Tayassuidae	stated without evidence	Gidley, 1920
Platygonus	genus	belongs to Tayassuidae	implied	Carroll, 1988
Platygonus	genus	belongs to Tayassuinae	stated without evidence	McKenna and Bell, 1997
Platygonus	genus	belongs to Tayassuinae	stated with evidence	Wright, 1998
Platygonus	genus	belongs to Tayassuidae	stated without evidence	Gasparini, 2013
Platygonus	genus	belongs to Platygonini	stated with evidence	Dutra et al., 2017

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

23.0 - 16.0 Ma
Miocene

Last Recorded Appearance

0.01 Ma
Pleistocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Artiodactyla)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

browser, grazer

Ecospace Comments

browser-grazer based on stable isotopes (MacFadden and Cerling 1996)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. L. Leconte. 1848. Notice of five new species of fossil Mammalia from Illinois. American Journal of Science and Arts 5:102-106

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platygonus

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Antaodon cinctus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Platygonus bicalcaratus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		27	4.90 Ma Pliocene	1.80 Ma Pleistocene
Platygonus carlesi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Platygonus chapadmalensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	3.60 Ma Pliocene	3.60 Ma Pliocene
Platygonus cinctus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Platygonus compressus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		40	3.60 Ma Pliocene	0.13 Ma Pleistocene
Platygonus cumberlandensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	0.13 Ma Pleistocene
Platygonus intermedius ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	1.80 Ma Pleistocene	1.80 Ma Pleistocene
Platygonus kraglievichi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Platygonus marplatensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	4.00 Ma Pliocene	3.60 Ma Pliocene
Platygonus narinoensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	3.60 Ma Pliocene	3.60 Ma Pliocene
Platygonus pearcei ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	5.33 Ma Miocene	4.90 Ma Pliocene
Platygonus pollenae ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	20.4 Ma Miocene	10.3 Ma Miocene
Platygonus scagliae ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	3.60 Ma Pliocene	3.60 Ma Pliocene
Platygonus setiger ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Platygonus striatus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Platygonus vetus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		21	4.90 Ma Pliocene	0.13 Ma Pleistocene
Prosthennops brachirostris ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	10.3 Ma Miocene	10.3 Ma Miocene
Prosthennops oregonensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	10.3 Ma Miocene	10.3 Ma Miocene
Selenogonus narinoensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1848	Platygonus Le Conte
1848	Platygonus Leconte p. 103 figs. Fig. 1
1848	Hyops Leconte p. 104 figs. not figured
1848	Protochoerus Leconte p. 106
1853	Euchoerus Leidy
1886	Antaodon Ameghino
1898	Antaodon Trouessart p. 1003
1902	Platygonus Hay p. 660
1920	Platygonus Gidley p. 656
1947	Selenogonus Stirton

Year	Name and Author
1964	Platygonus Hoare et al. p. 208
1967	Platygonus Wilson p. 215
1980	Platygonus Kurten and Anderson p. 297
1988	Platygonus Carroll
1996	Antaodon Domning p. 393
1997	Platygonus McKenna and Bell p. 397
1998	Platygonus Wright p. 395
2013	Platygonus Gasparini p. 58
2017	Platygonus Dutra et al. p. 355

References

Leconte J. L. Notice of five new species of fossil Mammalia from Illinois, American Journal of Science and Arts 5, 102-106

Trouessart E. L. , Catalogus mammalium tam viventium quam fossilum 5, 665-1264

Hay O. P. (1902) , Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 179, 1-868

Gidley J. W. (1920) Pleistocene peccaries from the Cumberland cave deposit, Proceedings of the United States National Museum 57 2324, 651-678

Stirton R. A. (1947) A rodent and a peccary from the Cenozoic of Colombia, Compilación de Estudios Geológicos Oficiales en Colombia 7, 317-324

Hoare R. D., Coash J. R., et al (1964) Pleistocene peccary Platygonus compressus Leconte from Sandusky County, Ohio, Ohio Journal of Science 64 3, 207-214

Wilson R. L. (1967) The Pleistocene vertebrates of Michigan, Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters 52, 197-234

Kurten B., Anderson E. (1980) , Pleistocene mammals of North America, 1-442

Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698

Domning D. P. (1996) Bibliography and Index of the Sirenia and Desmostylia, Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 80, 1-611

McKenna M. C., Bell S. K. (1997) , Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level, 1-640

Wright D. B. (1998) Tayassuidae, Evolution of Tertiary mammals of North America, 389-401

Gasparini G. M. (2013) Records and Stratigraphical Ranges of South American Tayassuidae (Mammalia, Artiodactyla), Journal of Mammalian Evolution 20 1, 57-68 doi:10.1007/s10914-011-9172-z

Dutra R. P., Casali D. de M., et al (2017) Phylogenetic Systematics of Peccaries (Tayassuidae: Artiodactyla) and a Classification of South American Tayassuids, Journal of Mammalian Evolution 24 3, 345-358 doi:10.1007/s10914-016-9347-8

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Mem. Amer. Acad., (N. S.) 3 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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