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NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



Fossil species 



Platigonus compressus Le Conte Fossil peccary 

 1848 Platigonus compressus Le Conte, Am. jour. sci. and arts. ser. 2. 

 5 : io 3- 



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. Leidy : "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 

 Platygonus 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 long 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 Fossil horse 

 1842 Fquus major De Kay, Zoology of New York, Mammalia, p. 108. 

 1884 Equus major Merriam, Linn. soc. New York. Trans. Aug. 1884. 

 2: 47. 



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. 



Prvicipal records. De Kay : " Teeth and bones of th« 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 below Newbern n ('42, p. 108). Merriam: Dr C. C. Benton of 

 Ogdensburg has shown me several fossil molar teeth of Equus maior 



