It is too large to represent a peccary and probably represents some other artiodactyl or a perissodactyl. |
There are about 220 artiodactyl species, including many that are of great economic importance to humans. |
The fibula bone in the back leg and the ulna in the front leg have been reduced in different artiodactyl lineages. |
The marsupials and the small artiodactyl, Leptomeryx, are the only portions of the fauna which have been studied in detail. |
Small fragments make small differences in efficiency when rendering grease from fractured artiodactyl bones by boiling. |
They differ from other artiodactyl horns in that they do not project from the frontal bones, but lie over the sutures between the frontal and parietal bones. |