Catagonus stenocephalus

Catagonus stenocephalus is an extinct species of peccary that lived in South America during the Late Pleistocene. Fossils have been found in Brazil, Argentina, and Bolivia. It is commonly known as the narrow-headed peccary due to its long and markedly convex rostrum.

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CatagonusPBDB
Diet
herbivore, omnivorePBDB, for Tayassuidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Tayassuidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

Time the record covers

At least 271 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 400 ka to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 1.75 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Pleistocene — about 3 of 3 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 3 occurrences1.8–1.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1.7–1.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.6–1.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.6–1.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.5–1.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.4–1.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.4–1.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.3–1.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.2–1.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.1–1.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.1–975 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences975 ka–900 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences900 ka–825 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences825 ka–750 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences750 ka–675 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences675 ka–600 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences600 ka–525 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences525 ka–450 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450 ka–375 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences375 ka–300 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences300 ka–225 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences225 ka–150 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences150 ka–75 ka Mya — about 0.7 occurrences75 ka–0 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences400 ka – 129 ka2.25 Mya0 Mya

3 occurrences of Catagonus stenocephalus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

3 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

1 formation

Touro Passo — 29.75°S, 57.08°W

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The named rock units Catagonus stenocephalus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Catagonus stenocephalus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Catagonus stenocephalus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

No other named taxon is catalogued from that site.

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Catagonus stenocephalus, and this reads all of them.

Entered from

3 references

Each of the 3 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Catagonus stenocephalus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Catagonus stenocephalus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Catagonus stenocephalus was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lund 1880