Flat-headed Peccary
name: label: Discipline
content: Paleobiology
notes: label: Description
content: This object is part of the Education and Outreach collection, some of which are in the Q?rius science education center and available to see.
label: Geologic Age
content: Cenozoic - Quaternary - Pleistocene
label: Notes
content: This tooth is from the lower right jaw of a Platygonus, a flat-headed peccary that is now extinct. This genus of peccary was an herbivorous, medium-sized, hoofed mammal that looked pig-like with a snout and tusks. This tooth (including part of the jaw it is rooted in) is 1.5cm thick and measures 2.5cm x 2cm.
label: Number of objects in this record
content: 1
label: Record Last Modified
content: 5 Aug 2020
topic: label: Topic
content: Education & Outreach
setName: label: See more items in
content: Q?rius, The Coralyn W. Whitney Science Education Center
publisher: label: Scientific Name
content: Platygonus
identifier: label: USNM Number
content: EO52919
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Education and Outreach collections
taxonomicName: label: Taxonomy
content: Animalia, Chordata, Theria, Artiodactyla, Tayassuidae, Tayassuinae