Subfamily Moschinae Gray 1821 (musk deer)

Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Moschidae

Parent taxon: Moschidae according to D. R. Prothero 2007

Sister taxa: Bedenomeryx, Blastomerycinae, Dremotherium, Friburgomeryx, Hispanomeryx, Hydropotopsis, Oriomeryx, Pomelomeryx

Subtaxa: Micromeryx Moschus

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Type: Moschus

Ecology: ground dwelling browser-grazer

Distribution:

• Quaternary of China (5 collections)

• Turolian of China (4)

• Miocene of Austria (1), China (6), Czechia (2), France (4), Germany (6), Hungary (1), Mongolia (1), Serbia (1), Spain (10), Switzerland (1)

• Oligocene of Kazakhstan (1)

Total: 43 collections including 46 occurrences

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