Global InformationCatagonus stenocephalus information
| Catagonus stenocephalus Temporal range: Mid - Late Pleistocene[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Tayassuidae |
| Genus: | Catagonus |
| Species: | †C. stenocephalus
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| †Catagonus stenocephalus (Lund in Reinhardt, 1880)[2]
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Brasiliochoerus stenocephalus is an extinct species of peccary that lived in South America during the Late Pleistocene. Fossils have been found in Brazil, Argentina and Bolivia.[3][4][5] It is commonly known as the narrow-headed peccary due to its long and markedly convex rostrum.[6]
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- ^ Gasparini, G.M.; Kerber, L.; Oliveira, E.V. (2009). "Catagonus stenocephalus (LUND in REINHARDT, 1880) (Mammalia, Tayassuidae) in the Touro Passo Formation (Late Pleistocene), Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Taxonomic and palaeoenvironmental comments". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen. 254 (3): 261–273. doi:10.1127/0077-7749/2009/0016.
- ^ Parisi-Dutra, R. (January 2016). "Fossil peccaries of Late Pleistocene/Holocene (Cetartiodactyla, Tayassuidae) from underwater caves of Serra da Bodoquena (Mato Grosso do Sul State, Brazil)". Historical Biology. 29 (1): 85–92. doi:10.1080/08912963.2015.1125898. hdl:11336/54277. S2CID 131364544.
- ^ Lopes, R.P (2021). "The Santa Vitória Alloformation: an update on a Pleistocene fossil-rich unit in Southern Brazil". Brazilian Journal of Geology. 51 (1). doi:10.1590/2317-4889202120200065. hdl:10183/220266. S2CID 234238367.
- ^ Copetti, Paula Lopes (2020). "A skull of the extinct tayassuid Brasiliochoerus stenocephalus (Lund in Reinhardt, 1880) (Mammalia, Cetartiodactyla) from the Late Pleistocene of southern Brazil: morphology and taxonomy". Historical Biology. 33 (9): 1898–1910. doi:10.1080/08912963.2020.1751837. S2CID 219054991.