Longirostromeryx
Extinct genus of deer
Longirostromeryx Temporal range: middle Miocene to late Pliocene[1] | |
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Female from the Ashfall Fossil Beds | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | Moschidae |
Subfamily: | †Blastomerycinae |
Genus: | †Longirostromeryx Frick, 1937 |
Type species | |
†Blastomeryx wellsi | |
Species[2] | |
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Skull replicas: male (top), female (bottom)
Notes
References
- McKenna, Malcolm C., and Bell, Susan K. 1997. Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. Columbia University Press, New York, 631 pp. ISBN 0-231-11013-8
- Webb, S.D., 1998. Hornless ruminants. pp. 463–476 in C.M. Janis, K.M. Scott, and L.L. Jacobs (eds.) Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 0-521-35519-2
- The Book of Life: An Illustrated History of the Evolution of Life on Earth by Jean-Paul Tibbles, Peter Andrews, John Barber, and Michael Benton
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