Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Merycoidodontidae
Synonyms: Merycoides nebraskensis Schultz and Falkenbach 1949, Merycoides nebraskensis blairi Schultz and Falkenbach 1949
Full reference: E. Douglass. 1907. Some new merycoidodonts. Annals of Carnegie Museum 4:99-109
Belongs to Merycoides according to M. S. Stevens et al. 2023
See also Douglass 1907, Lander 1998, Schultz and Falkenbach 1949, Tabrum and Nichols 2001 and Thorpe 1937
Sister taxa: Merycoides longiceps, Merycoides stouti
Type specimens:
- Merycoides cursor: CM 1222, a partial skeleton (a skull and mandible nearly complete, the lower portion of a shoulder blade, part of a humerus, the upper end of the radius, the head and distal end of the femu). Its type locality is Canyon Ferry Reservoir Earl Douglass Location, which is in a Hemingfordian terrestrial horizon in Montana.
- Merycoides nebraskensis: F:AM 33363, a partial skull (Partial skull with I1-M3 and mandible with i1-m3 (p2-p4, br.)). Its type locality is Signal Butte, which is in a Geringian terrestrial horizon in the Gering Formation of Nebraska.
- Merycoides nebraskensis blairi: F:AM 42306, a partial skull.
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of United States (2: Montana, Wyoming collections)
• Arikareean of United States (1: Wyoming)
• Oligocene of United States (2: Nebraska, South Dakota)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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