Heteroprox
Heteroprox Temporal range: Miocene
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Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | Cervidae |
Genus: | †Heteroprox Schaub, 1928 |
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Heteroprox larteti Filhol, 1891 (as Cervus larteti)
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Heteroprox is an extinct genus of deer from the Miocene of Europe.
Description[]
Heteroprox was a mid-sized deer that would have been similar in appearance to a muntjac. It would have stood about 1 m (3.3 ft) tall and weighed around 35 kg (77 lb).[1]
It had fairly long legs, and two-pronged antlers. Based on its leg proportions, it was probably semi-aquatic and lived in humid, swampy environments.[1]
References[]
Categories:
- Prehistoric deer
- Miocene even-toed ungulates
- Miocene mammals of Europe
- Transitional fossils
- Fossil taxa described in 1928
- Prehistoric even-toed ungulate genera
- Prehistoric even-toed ungulate stubs