OLDEST KNOWN PECCARY 
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OLDEST KNOWN PECCARY FROM AMERICA 
By Harold J. Cook 
Agate, Nebraska 
About nine miles north of Crawford, Nebraska, there was re¬ 
cently found in the lowermost clays of the Chadron formation, 
and immediately above the “Rusty” member of the Pierre shales, 
a pair of lower jaws of a peccary, which proves to be a new 
species. Since this is the first known appearance of any form 
' of this family in America, it seems worth while to record the find 
at this time. 
When the specimen was discovered, the writer was just leav¬ 
ing the field, and was not prepared with materials to collect fragile 
fossils. But as this specimen was partly weathered out, already 
badly cracked, and in a place where it would soon be destroyed, 
it was removed from the rock with a pocket knife, and carried 
back to town, wrapped merely in a pocket handkerchief. As a 
result of having to use such primitive methods, the incisors were 
lost, and the back portions of the jaws were so badly broken that 
they are still in fragments. However, by care and patience, both 
mandibular rami with the last five cheek teeth, are restored with¬ 
out distortion, and are connected in position at the symphysis. 
