Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Antilocapridae
Alternative combination: Dicrocerus necatus
Full reference: J. Leidy. 1854. [Abstract of remarks made before a meeting of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, June 6th, 1854]. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 7:89-90
Belongs to Merycodus according to C. M. Janis and E. Manning 1998
See also Cope 1875, Cope 1875, Frick 1937, Hay 1902, Leidy 1854, Leidy 1857, Leidy 1873, Matthew 1904 and Skinner and Taylor 1967
Sister taxa: Merycodus crucensis, Merycodus hookwayi, Merycodus joraki, Merycodus major, Merycodus minimus, Merycodus minor, Merycodus prodromus, Merycodus sabulonis, Merycodus tehuanus, Merycodus trilateralis, Merycodus warreni, Meryceros (Submeryceros)
Type specimen: Its type locality is Niobrara River (coll. Hayden 1857), which is in a Barstovian/Clarendonian terrestrial horizon in the Loup Fork Formation of Nebraska.
Ecology: ground dwelling browser-grazer
Distribution:
• Miocene of Canada (5: Saskatchewan collections), United States (14: Montana, Nebraska, South Dakota)
Total: 19 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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