Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Homacodontidae
Full reference: O. A. Peterson. 1919. Report Upon the Material Discovered in the Upper Eocene of the Uinta Basin by Earl Douglas in the Years 1908-1909, and by O. A. Peterson in 1912. Annals of Carnegie Museum 12(2):40-168
Parent taxon: Homacodontidae according to J. M. Theodor et al. 2007
See also Carroll 1988, Gazin 1955, Gentry and Hooker 1988, McKenna and Bell 1997 and Peterson 1919
Sister taxa: Antiacodon, Asiohomacodon, Auxontodon, Bunomerycini, Bunomeryx, Gagadon, Hexacodus, Homacodon, Homacodontini, Hylomeryx, Limeryx, Microsus, Mytonomeryx, Pentacemylus, Texodon, Tsaganohyus
Subtaxa: Mesomeryx grangeri
Type: Mesomeryx grangeri
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of United States (3: Utah, Wyoming collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
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