Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Antilocapridae
Alternative combination: Sphenophalos blicki
Full reference: C. Frick. 1937. Horned ruminants of North America. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 69:1-669
Belongs to Plioceros according to C. M. Janis and E. Manning 1998
See also Frick 1937, Stirton 1938, Tedford and Barghoorn 1993 and Tedford et al. 1987
Sister taxa: Plioceros dehlini, Plioceros floblairi
Type specimen: Its type locality is Santa Cruz, which is in a Barstovian terrestrial horizon in the Tesuque Formation of New Mexico
Ecology: ground dwelling browser-grazer
Distribution:
• Hemphillian of United States (2: New Mexico collections)
• Miocene of United States (4: Montana, New Mexico)
Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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