Platygonus Le Conte, 1848a

Gasparini, GermAEn M., Moreno-Mancilla, Oscar F. & Cómbita, JosØ L., 2021, Selenogonus narinoensis Stirton, 1947 (Tayassuidae, Cetartiodactyla, Mammalia): taxonomic status and paleobiogeographic implications, Fossil Record 24 (1), pp. 65-75 : 67

Genus Platygonus Le Conte, 1848a

1848a Platigonus, Le Conte , p. 103 (lapsus calami).

1848b Platygonus, Le Conte , p. 258.

1848a Hyops, Le Conte , p. 104.

1848b Protochoerus, Le Conte , pp. 105–106

(nomen dubium).

1852a Dicotyles, Le Conte (in part), p. 3.

1852b Dicotyles, Le Conte (in part), p. 5.

1853 Euchoerus, Leidy , p. 340.

1857 Dicotyles, Leidy (in part), p. 100.

1886 Antaodon, Ameghino , p. 149.

1887 Coyametla, Duges, p. 16.

1904 Listriodon, Ameghino , p. 76.

1930 Mylohyus, Rusconi , pp. 191–195

(nec Cope, 1889: p. 134).

1947 Selenogonus, Stirton , p. 322.

1959 Argyrohyus, Kraglievich , p. 230.

Type species

Platygonus compressus Le Conte, 1848a ( ANSP 11512 , ANSP 11515 , ANSP 11522 , ANSP 11524 , ANSP 11533 , ANSP 11534 , ANSP 11539 ), Pleistocene sediments from a fissure fill near Galena, Jo Daviess County, Illinois, USA.

Occurrence

Late Miocene–Late Pleistocene (North America); late Pliocene–Early to Middle Pleistocene (South America). In South America there are paleontological records in Argentina (Buenos Aires and Jujuy provinces), Bolivia (Tarija valley), Uruguay (Canelones Department), and Colombia (BoyacAE and Nariaeo departments) ( Gasparini et al., 2010; Gasparini and Ubilla, 2011; Gasparini, 2013; Gasparini et al., 2019; Moreno Mancilla et al., 2019).

Remarks

The original spelling was actually “ Platigonus ”, but there is sufficient indication that this was a misprint. The name is differently misprinted (Platydonus) in another paper by Le Conte, published almost simultaneously. “ Platygonus is now universally used and may be retained” ( Simpson, 1945, p. 146) (see McKenna and Bell, 1997). See also the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (1999), articles 32 and 33.