Catagonus stenocephalus Lund in Reinhardt, 1880

Narrow-headed peccary, Chacoan peccary

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Brasiliochoerus stenocephalus (Lund in Reinhardt, 1880)

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: Late Pleistocene or Holocene

Distribution

Bolivia & Mato Grosso do Sul State, Brazil

Type locality: "Gruta Lapa da Escrivânia, N°11, Lagoa Santa, Minas Gerais, Brazil" (Ubilla et al., 2023)

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Holotype: ZMK 8638 (skull) / ZMK 8617 (partial left mandible) (Ubilla et al., 2023)

Media

References

Original scientific description:

Lund, P. W. in: Reinhardt, J. (1880). De I de brasilianske knoglehuler fundne Navlesvin: Arter. Videnskabelige Meddlelser fra den Naturhistorike Forening I Kjoberhavn, 271-301.

Other references:

Avilla, Leonardo S. et al. (2013). The northernmost record of Catagonus stenocephalus (Lund in Reinhardt, 1880) (Mammalia, Cetartiodactyla) and its palaeoenvironmental and palaeobiogeographical significance. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 42: 39-46. [Abstract]

Copetti, Paula Lopes et al. (2021). 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. https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2020.1751837

Dutra, Rodrigo Parisi et al. (2016). Fossil peccaries of Late Pleistocene/Holocene (Cetartiodactyla, Tayassuidae) from underwater caves of Serra da Bodoquena (Mato Grosso do Sul State, Brazil). Historical Biology. DOI:10.1080/08912963.2015.1125898.

R. P. Dutra, D. d.e. M. Casali, R. V. Missagia, G. M. Gasparini, F. A. Perini and M. A. Cozzuol. 2017. Phylogenetic Systematics of Peccaries (Tayassuidae: Artiodactyla) and a Classification of South American Tayassuids. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 24(3): 345-358.

Gasparini, G. M. (2007). Sistemática, biogeografía, ecología y bioestratigrafía de los Tayassuidae (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) fósiles y actuales de América del Sur, com especial énfasis en las especies fósiles de la provincia de Buenos Aires [Ph.D. thesis]. [La Plata (AR)]: Universidad Nacional de La Plata. 408 pp.

Gasparini G. 2011 Records and stratigraphical ranges of South American Tayassuidae (Mammalia, Artiodactyla). Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 1-12.

Gasparini, G.M., Kerber, L., Oliveira, E.V., 2009, Catagonus stenocephalus (Lund in Reinhardt, 1880) (Mammalia, Tayassuidae) in the ouro Passo Formation (Late Pleistocene), Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. axonomic and palaeoenvironmental comments: Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, 254 (3), 261-273.

G. M. Gasparini, E. Soibelzon, A. E. Zurita and A. R. Miño-Boilini. 2010. A review of the Quaternary Tayassuidae (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) from the Tarija valley, Bolivia. Alcheringa 34(1): 7-20.

Kerber L., Kinoshita A., José F.A., Graciano Figueiredo A.M., Oliveira É.V., Baffa O. 2011 Electron Spin Resonance dating of the southern Brazilian Pleistocene mammals from Touro Passo Formation, and remarks on the geochronology, fauna and palaeoenvironments. Quaternary International 245(2), 201-208.

Kerber, Leonardo, Pitana, Vanessa Gregis, Ribeiro, Ana Maria, Hsiou, Annie Schmaltz and Oliveira, Edison V. (2014). Late Pleistocene vertebrates from Touro Passo Creek (Touro Passo Formation), southern Brazil: a review. Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas 31(2): 248-259.

Lopes, Renato Pereira et al. (2021). The Santa Vitória Alloformation: an update on a Pleistocene fossil-rich unit in Southern Brazil. Brazilian Journal of Geology 51(1): e2020065.

Missagia, Rafaela Velloso, Parisi-Dutra, Rodrigo and Cozzuol, Mario Alberto. (2016). Morphometry of Catagonus stenocephalus (Lund in Reinhardt 1880) (Artiodactyla: Tayassuidae) and taxonomical considerations about Catagonus Ameghino 1904. International Journal of Biodiversity 12(1): 39-44.

Smith F.A., Lyons S.K., Ernest S.K.M., Jones K.E., Kaufman D.M., Dayan T., Marquet P.A., Brown J.H., Haskell J.P. 2003 Body mass of late Quaternary mammals. Ecology 84(12), 3403-3403.

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