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Fossil species 
Platigonus compressus Le Conte /ossil peccary 
1848 Platigonus compressus Le Conte, Am. jour. sci. and arts. ser. 2. 
FOR. 
1889 Platygonus compressus Leidy, Wagner free inst. of science of 
Philadelphia. Trans. Dec. 1889: 2:47. 
Type locality. ‘The lead region of Illinois”? (Le Conte, ’48, p. 102) 
Distribution in New York. Bones of the fossil peccary have been 
found near Rochester, but at no other locality in the state to my knowl- 
edge. 
Principal records. WLeidy: ‘‘Recently the writer procured through pur- 
chase for the Academy of natural sciences of Philadelphia . . . a col- 
lection of remarkably well-preserved remains of two adult individuals of 
Flatygonus compressus which were found in making a railway excavation 
in a gravel bank a few miles from Rochester. Of one individual there is 
the greater part of the skeleton, consisting of the nearly perfect skull 
with the teeth . .. 21 vertebrae, the sacrum, the Jong bones of both 
pairs of limbs, the imperfect scapulae, an innominatum, and part of a 
second, both pairs of principal metacarpals, one pair of principal meta- 
tarsals, an astragalus, a calcaneum, portions of a sternum and fragments 
of three ribs. Of the second individual there is a less perfect skull with 
the upper teeth but without the mandible ” (’89, 41). 
Equus major De Kay Jossil ho se 
1842 Lguus major De Kay, Zoology of New York, Mammalia. p 108. 
1884 Equus major Merriam, Linn. soc. New York. Trans. Aug. 1884. 
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Type locality. Navesink hills, New Jersey. 
Distribution in New York. Remains of the fossil horse have been 
found at Keene’s station, near the Oswegatchie river Ox Bow, in 
Jefferson co. 
Principal records. De Kay: “Teeth and bones of the horse have 
been found in various parts of the Union, but I am unacquainted with 
any locality in this state. The nearest approach to it are the teeth and 
vertebrae found near the Navesink hills in New Jersey... They have 
also been found on the north branch of the Susquehannah; in digging 
the Chesapeake canal near Georgetown D. C. and in North Carolina 
. 16 miles bélow Newbern ” (’42, p. 108). Merriam: Dr C. C. Benton of - 
Ogdensburg has shown me several fossil molar teeth of Eguus major 
