Merycoides
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Merycoides Temporal range: Late Oligocene
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Merycoides cursor | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | †Merycoidodontidae |
Genus: | †Merycoides Douglass (1907) |
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†Merycoides cursor | |
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Merycoides is an extinct genus of oreodont of the subfamily Merycoidodontinae endemic to North America. It lived during the Oligocene to Late Miocene, 30.8—16.0 mya, existing for approximately 15 million years.[1] Fossils have been uncovered throughout the western U.S. as well as Florida.
Species
- M. cursor Douglass 1907
- M. harrisonensis Schultz & Falkenbach 1949
- M. longiceps Douglass 1907
- M. pariogonus Schultz & Falkenbach 1949
- M. relictus Cope 1884
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- Oligocene Artiodactyla
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