Platygonus vetus, skull (Peccary) Dimorphodon The orange bars in the

The orange bars in the photos are 10 centimeters for scale

Because of the long tail and spine like appendage at the tip of the tail the Eurypterids have been called " sea scorpions

The fossil record places peccaries in the Upper to Lower Oligocene in Europe

Spines from Mioplosus and Priscacara are frequently found in the stomachs of Phareodus

and webbed feet to propel and steer it through the water

Platygonus vetus, skull (Peccary) Dimorphodon The orange bars in theThe Pleistocene peccary Platygonus vetus from Poorfarm Cave, Pocahontas County, WV. Ray Garton, Curator, WV Geological Survey , Morgantown, WV Fredrick Grady, Arlington, VA Marshall G Homes, Snow Shoe, WV ABSTRACT as published in West Virginia Academy of Science Proceedings A virtually complete, articulated skeleton of the extinct peccary Platygonus vetus has been recovered from an obscure passage in Poorfarm Cave, Pocahontas County, West Virginia.