Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Merycoidodontidae
Full reference: E. Douglass. 1907. Some new merycoidodonts. Annals of Carnegie Museum 4:99-109
Parent taxon: Eporeodontinae according to M. S. Stevens et al. 2023
See also Lander 1998, Loomis 1920, Loomis 1924, Schultz and Falkenbach 1949, Stevens and Stevens 2007 and Thorpe 1937
Sister taxon: Eporeodon
Subtaxa: Merycoides cursor Merycoides longiceps Merycoides stouti
Type: Merycoides cursor
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of United States (2: Oregon, Wyoming collections)
• Harrisonian of United States (11: Montana, Nebraska, South Dakota, Wyoming)
• Arikareean of United States (4: Montana, Oregon, Wyoming)
• Oligocene of United States (6: Nebraska, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington)
Total: 23 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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