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Science 21 May 1976:
Vol. 192. no. 4241, pp. 787 - 789
DOI: 10.1126/science.192.4241.787
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Fossil Peccary from the Pliocene of South Africa

Q. B. HENDEY 1

1 South African Museum, Post Office Box 61, Cape Town, 8000, South Africa

Pecarichoerus africanus, new species, from Langebaanweg, Cape Province, is the first fossil peccary to be described from Africa and represents the youngest record of the peccary family in the Old World.

Submitted on January 12, 1976

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