Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Oromerycidae
originally described as Merycobunodon walshi
Full reference: P. C. Murphey and T. S. Kelly. 2017. Mammals from the earliest Uintan (middle Eocene) Turtle Bluff Member, Bridger Formation, southwestern Wyoming, USA, Part 2: Apatotheria, Lipotyphla, Carnivoramorpha, Condylartha, Dinocerata, Perissodactyla and Artiodactyla. Palaeontologia Electronica 20.2.29A
Belongs to Merycobunodon according to P. C. Murphey and T. S. Kelly 2017
Sister taxon: Merycobunodon littoralis
Type specimen: UCM 67888, a tooth (right M1 or M2). Its type locality is Donna's Locality, which is in an Uintan terrestrial claystone in the Bridger Formation of Wyoming.
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution: found only at Donna's Locality
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