Catagonus

Catagonus is a genus of peccaries that contains the living Chacoan peccary, C. wagneri, and several extinct species. The genus has always been restricted to South America.

Catagonus

TimVickers · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TayassuiniPBDB
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 4.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 4.7 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 9.4 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 3 of 16 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 16 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 12 of 16 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 16 occurrences9.6–9.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.2–8.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.9–8.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.6–8.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.3–7.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.9–7.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.6–7.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.9–6.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.6–6.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.3–5.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.9–5.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.6–5.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.3–5.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.0–4.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.6–2.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.3–2.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.0–1.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.6–1.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.3–990 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences990 ka–660 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences660 ka–330 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence330 ka–0 Mya — about 9 occurrences4.7 Mya129 ka9.9 Mya0 Mya

16 occurrences of Catagonus 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

16 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

7 formations

Sopas — 30.43°S, 56.45°WSopas — 31.25°S, 57.00°WArroyo Feliciano — 32.03°S, 60.62°WOgallala — 35.70°N, 102.30°WVorohué — 38.03°S, 57.72°WTouro Passo — 29.75°S, 57.08°WSalto Ander Egg — 32.07°S, 60.55°WDolores — 34.38°S, 57.88°W

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The named rock units Catagonus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Catagonus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Catagonus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

156 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Catagonus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

13 references

Each of the 16 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. 1 further reference is not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Catagonus

Credit
TimVickers
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Photogrammetry

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Catagonus wagneri · UWBM:Mammalogy:UWBM:Mamm:85986

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itTayassuini through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ameghino 1904