Yumaceras
Yumaceras Temporal range:
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | †Palaeomerycidae |
Tribe: | †Cranioceratini |
Genus: | †Yumaceras Frick, 1937 |
Yumaceras is an extinct genus of antelope-like palaeomerycid artiodactyl endemic to North America from the Miocene epoch, 13.6—5.33 Ma, existing for approximately 8.27 million years.[1]
Taxonomy[]
Yumaceras was named by Frick (1937). It was synonymized subjectively with Pediomeryx by Savage (1941) and Janis and Manning (1998); it was reranked as Pediomeryx (Yumaceras) by Webb (1983); it was synonymized subjectively with Cranioceras by Tedford et al. (1987). It was assigned to Pediomeryx by Webb (1983); and to by Prothero and Liter (2007).[2][3][4]
Fossil distribution[]
- Norris Canyon, Contra Costa County, California
- Cambridge Site, Frontier County, Nebraska
- Haile V/XIXA, Alachua County, Florida
References[]
- ^ PaleoBiology Database: Yumaceras, basic info
- ^ C. Frick. 1937. Horned ruminants of North America. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 69:1-669
- ^ D. E. Savage. 1941. American Midland Naturalist 25
- ^ D. R. Prothero and M. R. Liter. 2007. Family Palaeomerycidae. in D. R. Prothero and S. Foss (eds.), The Evolution of Artiodactyls 241-248
Categories:
- Prehistoric cervoids
- Miocene even-toed ungulates
- Miocene mammals of North America
- Prehistoric even-toed ungulate genera
- Fossil taxa described in 1937
- Prehistoric even-toed ungulate stubs