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Mylohyus ✝

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Description

Mylohyus is an extinct genus of peccary found in North and Central America. It evolved in the Pliocene and its extinction is probably as recent as 9,000 years ago. It would have been familiar with early humans.

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4835337	https://www.gbif.org/species/4835337
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	42432	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=42432

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Artiodactyla : Tayassuidae : Mylohyus

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Artiodactyla : Tayassuidae : Mylohyus

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	Mylohyus	Cope 1889

Scientific Name

Mylohyus Cope, 1889

Name Published In

Amer. Natural., 23, no. 267

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Mylohyus	genus	belongs to Tayassuidae	stated without evidence	Cope, 1869
Mylohyus	genus	subjective synonym of Tayassu	stated without evidence	Hay, 1902
Mylohyus	genus	belongs to Tayassuidae	stated without evidence	Gidley, 1920
Mylohyus	genus	belongs to Tayassuidae	implied	Carroll, 1988
Mylohyus	genus	belongs to Tayassuinae	stated without evidence	McKenna and Bell, 1997
Mylohyus	genus	belongs to Tayassuinae	stated with evidence	Wright, 1998
Mylohyus	genus	belongs to Platygonini	stated with evidence	Dutra et al., 2017
Mylohyus	genus	belongs to Tayassuidae	stated without evidence	Albright et al., 2019

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

10.3 - 4.9 Ma
Neogene

Last Recorded Appearance

0.13 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. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals.

Wikipedia

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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Dicotyles fossilis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dicotyles nasutus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mylohyus floridanus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	4.90 Ma Pliocene	4.90 Ma Pliocene
Mylohyus temerarius ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Prosthennops elmorei ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	10.3 Ma Miocene	10.3 Ma Miocene
Prosthennops longirostris ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Mylohyus obtusidens Hay, 1921	GBIF	species	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Artiodactyla : Tayassuidae : Mylohyus : *Mylohyus obtusidens*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1869	Mylohyus Cope
1920	Mylohyus Gidley p. 673
1921	Mylohyus obtusidens Hay p. 100 figs. Plate 4, figs. 14-15
1980	Mylohyus Kurten and Anderson p. 296
1988	Mylohyus Carroll
1997	Mylohyus McKenna and Bell p. 398
1998	Mylohyus Wright p. 395
2017	Mylohyus Dutra et al. p. 355
2019	Mylohyus Albright et al. p. 188

References

Alroy J. (2002) Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals

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

Hay O. P. (1921) Descriptions of some Pleistocene vertebrates found in the United States, Proceedings of The United States National Museum 58, 83-146

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

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

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

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

Albright L. B., Sanders A. E., et al (2019) Cenozoic vertebrate biostratigraphy of South Carolina, U.S.A. and additions to the fauna, Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 57 2, 77-236

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

Amer. Natural., 23, no. 267 - 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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