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English: Platygonus compressus LeConte, 1848 - fossil peccary skeleton (female) from the Pleistocene of Ohio, USA. (BGSU 2353, geology department, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, USA) (photo by Tyler Houck)

Classification: Animalia, Vertebrata, Mammalia, Artiodactyla, Suina, Tayassuidae

Stratigraphy: 15 feet below the top of a low sand hill representing a lacustrine beach ridge or dune deposit along or next to ancient Lake Warren, lower Holocene or near-uppermost Pleistocene

Locality: low sandy hill in the vicinity of Washington Chapel Cemetery (southwestern quarter of section 27 of T5N, R14E), Washington Township, 5 to 6 miles west of the town of Fremont, western Sandusky County, northwestern Ohio, USA

Some info. from: Hoare et al. (1964) - Pleistocene peccary Platygonus compressus LeConte from Sandusky County, Ohio. Ohio Journal of Science 64: 207-214.

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platygonus
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Author James St. John

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