What caught my interest was mention of the "platygonus". Back in the 1960s when we first went down the 24" core hole in Georgetown, TX, into Laubach Cave (now Inner Space), the first bones for this "cave with no modern entrance" that we found were from a rather large population of platygonus compressus. Dr. Laubach gave us permission to extract the bones because TXDOT said the cave would be closed over forever by I-35 and told Laubach there was "nothing of value in this small cave". Bob Slaughter of the SMU Paleontology Dept. went with us to the cave for the next 3 months of weekends and excavated many bones. Previously the largest deposit of these animals was found in a cave in Missouri.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platygonus] - Pete On Jun 9, 2015, at 12:33 PM, <jasonw...@gmail.com> wrote: > platygonus, an extinct relative of the modern-day peccary >
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