Odocoileus laevicornis Cope 1896 (New World deer)

Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Cervidae

Full reference: E. D. Cope. 1896. New and Little Known Mammalia from the Port Kennedy Bone Deposit. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 48:378-394

Belongs to Odocoileus according to Brown 1908

Sister taxa: Navahoceros, Odocoileus brachydontus, Odocoileus brachyodontus, Odocoileus dolichopsis, Odocoileus hemionus, Odocoileus lucasi, Odocoileus peruvianus, Odocoileus rothschildi, Odocoileus salinae, Odocoileus sellardsiae, Odocoileus virginianus

Type specimen: Its type locality is Port Kennedy Cave, which is in an Irvingtonian cave horizon in Pennsylvania

Ecology: ground dwelling browser

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Odocoileus laevicornis in the database

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