Platygonus is an extinct genus of herbivorous peccaries of the family Tayassuidae, endemic to North and South America from the Miocene through Pleistocene epochs, existing for about 10.289 million years. P. compressus stood 2.5 feet tall.
In 1862, an American explorer and his son are shipwrecked and washed upon a mysterious island. Soon they discover that this island is the home of generations of humans and dinosaurs living together in a peaceful and fantastic civilization called Dinotopia. Based on the books by James Gurney.
