Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Antilocapridae
Alternative combinations: Cosoryx cerroensis, Merycodus cerroensis
Full reference: C. Frick. 1937. Horned ruminants of North America. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 69:1-669
Belongs to Cosoryx (Subcosoryx) according to C. M. Janis and E. Manning 1998
See also Frick 1937, Henshaw 1939, Hibbard 1951, Skinner and Taylor 1967 and Tedford et al. 1987
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: Its type locality is Round Mountain Quarry, which is in a Clarendonian terrestrial horizon in the referred Chamita Formation of New Mexico
Ecology: ground dwelling grazer
Distribution:
• Pliocene of United States (1: Oklahoma collection)
• Miocene of United States (34: California, New Mexico, Washington)
Total: 35 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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