Prosthennops
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Prosthennops is a genus of extinct peccaries that lived in North and Central America between the middle Miocene and lower Pliocene (around 15-5 million years ago).
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- Parent taxon
- Tayassuidae
- Image
- File-Prosthennops sp.,-peccary - skull,-Mascall Formation, 15 Ma (df8a4e14-f9de-439f-8705-d8f8124880b1).jpg
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- taxon name
- Prosthennops
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon common name
- Nearctic warthogs
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Prosthennops is a genus of extinct peccaries that lived in North and Central America between the middle Miocene and lower Pliocene (around 15-5 million years ago).
== Description ==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Prosthennops” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.