Perchoerus platyops (Double Skull + Skeleton) Mammal Fossil (Fossils) PECA1

Name: Perchoerus platyops (double skull + skeleton)Age: oligocene, brule formationOrigin: shannon county, South Dakota, USASize: 21 and 22 cm  (skull)Matrix : 50 x 40 cmHardly no record of this animal exists except it looks like a large peccary and belongs to Artactyla. This is so rare hardly anything has been written about it but it was named by Cope of the famous Cope- Marsh duo. It is smaller than later Platygonius compresses but looks a lot like it. It was a browsing animal and very few bones have been found, At All!! Read about this animal here and you will know more than 99% of the population. You can look this up and get so little it is amazing!!!!