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In Portuguese, a peccary is called pecari, porco-do-mato, queixada, tajaçu, among other names like Cateto or Caititu. In Spanish, it is called javelina, jabalí (a word also used to describe wild boar), sajino, or pecarí. The word javelina derives from the Spanish word for "wild boar". [7] In French Guiana and Suriname, the animal is called ...
In 2003 German natural history filmmaker Lothar Frenz filmed a group and gathered a skull which later served as the type (INPA4272). It had been known locally as caitetú -mundè , which Roosmalen et al . state the locals claimed was Tupí and meant "the collared peccary that is bigger and goes in pairs", as opposed to caitetú-de-bando , "the ...
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At first glance, a javelina appears to look like a pig or wild boar, but the animal belongs to the peccary family — “a group of hoofed mammals originating from South America,” according to ...
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Quetzalcoatlus (/ k ɛ t s əl k oʊ ˈ æ t l ə s /) is a genus of azhdarchid pterosaur that lived during the Maastrichtian age of the Late Cretaceous in North America. The type specimen, recovered in 1971 from the Javelina Formation of Texas, United States, consists of several wing fragments and was described as Quetzalcoatlus northropi in 1975 by Douglas Lawson.
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The layer of the Javelina Formation where they were found dated back to the middle Maastrichtian of the Late Cretaceous. The complete specimen, including the jaws and the cervical vertebrae, were given the new genus and type species Wellnhopterus brevirostris in December 2021. It was named and described by Andres and, posthumously, Langston Jr.