Fossil peccaries of Late Pleistocene/Holocene (Cetartiodactyla, Tayassuidae) from underwater caves of Serra da Bodoquena (Mato Grosso do Sul State, Brazil)

作者：Dutra Rodrigo Parisi^*; Missagia Rafaela Velloso; Perini Fernando Araujo; Cozzuol Mario Alberto; Gasparinic German Mariano; Guedes Patricia Goncalves; Salles Leandro de Oliveira

来源：Historical Biology, 2017, 29(1): 85-92.

DOI：10.1080/08912963.2015.1125898

• Tayassuidae
• peccary
• quaternary
• South American
• Central Brazil
• morphology

New records of Catagonus stenocephalus and Tayassu pecari are reported from the karst of Serra da Bodoquena, located at a south-western portion of Brazil near the border with Paraguay. Skull and lower jaw fragments at different stages of mineralisation were retrieved from two limestone underwater caves, Japones and Nascente do Formoso, associated with clay and sand deposits with no retrievable stratigraphy. C14 dating of fossil mammals from these caves was attempted, but so far no success was achieved, but the inferred age for the associated paleofauna of these caves is Late Pleistocene and Holocene. The morphology of these fossil peccaries, from the most south-western known population in Brazil, is detailed and paleoecological implications are considered.

• 出版日期2017