Editing Peccary (section)

==Evolution==

Although some taxa from the [[Old World]] like the European Miocene ''[[Taucanamo]]'' have been suggested to be members of Tayussidae, their assignation to the group is equivocal, with a 2017 [[Phylogenetics|phylogenetic]] analysis recovering ''Taucanamo'' outside the [[clade]] containing suids and peccaries. The oldest [[Fossil|unambiguous fossils]] of peccaries are from the Early [[Miocene]] of North America, with the North American Eocene-Oligocene genus ''[[Perchoerus]],'' also often considered an early peccary, recovered outside the clade containing peccaries and suids.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Parisi Dutra |first1=Rodrigo |last2=Casali |first2=Daniel de Melo |last3=Missagia |first3=Rafaela Velloso |last4=Gasparini |first4=Germán Mariano |last5=Perini |first5=Fernando Araujo |last6=Cozzuol |first6=Mario Alberto |date=2016-09-13 |title=Phylogenetic Systematics of Peccaries (Tayassuidae: Artiodactyla) and a Classification of South American Tayassuids |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10914-016-9347-8 |journal=Journal of Mammalian Evolution |volume=24 |issue=3 |pages=345–358 |doi=10.1007/s10914-016-9347-8 |s2cid=27963274 |issn=1064-7554|hdl=11336/54840 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>

Although common in South America today, peccaries did not reach there until about three million years ago during the [[Great American Interchange]], when the [[Isthmus of Panama]] formed, connecting North America and South America. At that time, many North American animals—including peccaries, [[llama]]s and [[tapir]]s—entered South America, while some South American species, such as the [[ground sloth]]s and [[opossum]]s, migrated north.<ref>{{cite web |last=McDonald |first=Greg |date=1999-03-27 |url=http://www.nps.gov/hafo/platygon.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020805090520/http://www.nps.gov/hafo/platygon.htm |archive-date=2002-08-05  |title=Pearce's Peccary – ''Platygonus Pearcei'' |work=Hagerman Fossil Beds' Critter Corner |via=nps.gov }}</ref> Several species of peccary across the genera ''[[Platygonus]]'' and ''[[Mylohyus]]'' remained in North America until their [[extinction]] following the colonization of the continent by humans via [[Beringia]] at the end of the Pleistocene. Today, 2 of the 3 species are relegated to the [[Neotropical realm]], but the collared peccary ranges into northern Mexico and the southwestern United States.{{Clear}}