Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Moschidae
Full reference: J. E. Gray. 1821. On the natural arrangement of vertebrose animals. The London Medical Repository Monthly Journal and Review 15:296-310
Parent taxon: Bovoidea according to Y. Li et al. 2022
See also Agnarsson and May-Collado 2008, Becker et al. 2010, Carroll 1988, Cope 1889, Gray 1821, Hassanin and Douzery 2003, Nowak 1991, Prothero 2008 and Spaulding et al. 2009
Sister taxa: Amphimoschus, Bovidae
Subtaxa: Bedenomeryx Blastomerycinae Dremotherium Friburgomeryx Hispanomeryx Hydropotopsis Moschinae Oriomeryx Pomelomeryx
Ecology: ground dwelling browser-grazer
Distribution:
• Quaternary of China (5 collections)
• Miocene of Austria (1), Canada (9: Saskatchewan), China (11), the Czech Republic (2), France (6), Germany (7), Greece (2), Hungary (1), Mongolia (4), Panama (1), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Spain (12), Switzerland (4), United States (107: California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Wyoming)
• Harrisonian of United States (18: Montana, Nebraska, Oregon, South Dakota, Wyoming)
• Arikareean of United States (5: California, Montana, Wyoming)
• Oligocene of France (5), Germany (3), Kazakhstan (1), Mongolia (2), Switzerland (2), Turkey (1)
Total: 210 collections including 231 occurrences