Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Palaeomerycidae
Parent taxon: Cervoidea according to D. R. Prothero and M. R. Liter 2007
See also Carroll 1988, Hulbert and Whitmore 2006, Prothero and Liter 2008, Sach and Heizmann 2001 and Sánchez et al. 2015
Sister taxa: Amphiprox, Boreameryx, Heterocemas, Lagomerycidae
Subtaxa: Aletomerycinae Amphitragulus Dromomerycinae Palaeomerycinae Palaeomeryx Xenokeryx
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Ukraine (1 collection), United States (1: North Carolina)
• Hemphillian of United States (26: Alabama, California, Colorado, Florida, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas)
• Miocene of Austria (2), Canada (10: Saskatchewan), China (6), France (21), Germany (10), Greece (3), Hungary (1), Italy (4), Kenya (1), Pakistan (2), Poland (1), Portugal (6), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Slovakia (3), Spain (11), Switzerland (4), Uganda (1), Ukraine (3), United States (210: California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Virginia, Washington, Wyoming)
• Harrisonian of United States (7: Nebraska, Oregon)
• Oligocene of France (2), Germany (2), Kazakhstan (3), Mongolia (1), Pakistan (1), Switzerland (2)
• Eocene of Spain (1)
Total: 347 collections including 395 occurrences