Spines from Mioplosus and Priscacara are frequently found in the stomachs of Phareodus
The orange bars in the photos are 10 centimeters for scale
and webbed feet to propel and steer it through the water
The fossil record places peccaries in the Upper to Lower Oligocene in Europe
Platygonus vetus, skull (Peccary) Dimorphodon Spines from Mioplosus and PriscacaraThe Pleistocene peccary Platygonus vetus from Poorfarm Cave, Pocahontas County, WV. Ray Garton, Curator, WV Geological Survey , Morgantown, WV Fredrick Grady, Arlington, VA Marshall G Homes, Snow Shoe, WV ABSTRACT as published in West Virginia Academy of Science Proceedings A virtually complete, articulated skeleton of the extinct peccary Platygonus vetus has been recovered from an obscure passage in Poorfarm Cave, Pocahontas County, West Virginia.