Catagonus Ameghino 1904 (Chacoan peccary)
Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Tayassuidae
PaleoDB taxon number: 42423
Full reference: F. Ameghino. 1904. Nuevas especies de mamíferos, cretáceos y terciarios de la República Argentina [New species of mammals, Cretaceous and Tertiarty, from the Argentine Republic]. Anales de la Sociedad Cientifica Argentina 56–58:1-142
Parent taxon: Tayassuini according to R. P. Dutra et al. 2017
Sister taxa: Brasiliochoerus, Parachoerus, Pecari, Tayassu
Subtaxa: Catagonus bonaerensis, Catagonus carlesi, Catagonus metropolitanus, Catagonus stenocephalus
Ecology: scansorial insectivore